Tag: workingclass
Rise of “Tiger” Gerland: The working-class child who enchanted FC Bayern
Hermann Gerland is turning 70. The man who started his career as a professional as a working-class child in Bochum is now one of the most popular personalities in German…
Paris City Hall wants to favor “working-class neighborhoods” for the opening ceremony
During the technical rehearsal for the opening ceremony on the Seine, in July 2023. GONZALO FUENTES / REUTERS On Monday, May 27, Paris City Hall presented the distribution of the…
Oberkampf, from the working-class past to the bustling bric-a-brac
Oberkampf, this word immediately sounds like an enigma. A forgotten battle? A little-known composer? Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf (1738-1815), Frenchman of German origin, was the founder of the royal Toile de Jouy…
Toulouse: a 15-year-old teenager shot dead in a working-class neighborhood in the north of the city
Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credit: MAGALI COHEN / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 10:23 p.m., January 7, 2024modified to 11:36 p.m., January 7, 2024 A 15-year-old…
the new map of working-class neighborhoods arouses satisfaction or concern
It was a highly anticipated update, postponed many times, but now official. According to a decree published on December 28 in Official newspaper and entered into force on 1er January,…
Working-class neighborhoods: social diversity, right to housing… What to remember from Élisabeth Borne’s announcements
Mayalène Trémolet with AFP / Photo credit: JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP 1:55 p.m., October 27, 2023modified to 2:12 p.m., October 27, 2023 The government will ask prefects to no…
Bayonne: a man shot dead in a working-class neighborhood, an investigation was opened for assassination
Europe 1 with AFP 9:12 p.m., October 14, 2023 A young man in his twenties was killed by gunfire this Saturday in a working-class neighborhood in the north of Bayonne.…
Street educator, a profession in crisis, on the front line in working-class neighborhoods
A tag in the Petit Nanterre district, in Nanterre, on July 13, 2023. PHILEMON BARBIER / OUT OF FORMAT FOR “THE WORLD” It was necessary to let the first days…
After the urban riots, parents in working-class neighborhoods speak out, saying they are “stigmatized”, “angstified” or “angry”
Volunteer mothers are organizing a marauding to meet young people, in Cergy (Val-d’Oise), on the night of July 3 to 4, 2023. WILLIAM KEO/MAGNUM FOR “THE WORLD” They are less…
journalists faced with the difficulty of working in working-class neighborhoods
A team from France Télévisions, in Nanterre, on July 3, 2023. SAMUEL GRATACAP FOR “THE WORLD” They were afraid to be “lynched” doing their job. Since the death of Nahel…
Alexandre Clary, the working-class entrepreneur
Alexander Clary. KIDUR Kidur, for “who lasts”. The word seems straight out of a text message, but, surprisingly, it was created in 1935. That year, in Courlay, a village in…
Making haute couture accessible, the ambitious goal of fashion workshops in working-class neighborhoods
From the Super U car park in Villiers-sur-Marne, in the Val-de-Marne, it is hard to imagine that on the first floor the former offices of the mini-market house the Ateliers…