The review of magazines. For their return to school, the magazines Spirit And Futuribles both chose the question of work as their theme − the first from the angle of its divisions, the second by seeking to better discern the evolution of the value of work in Europe. For the foreign press, moreover, France remains ” a mystery “. Here is a country where some of the best protected workers on the continent took to the streets, from January to June, to protest against a pension reform which raised the legal retirement age to 64, below the current standard. in most countries of the European Union. But the paradox is perhaps only apparent, because work, its conditions, its recognition, its place in the financing of social protection have precisely been largely absent from the pension reform debate, as the political scientist Anne Dujin, editor-in-chief ofSpirit.
“How to work better? » : the question was asked to Laurent Berger and François Ruffin, in a fascinating cross-interview. It emerges from this dialogue between the former secretary general of the CFDT and the “rebellious” deputy from the Somme that the lines of convergence on the diagnosis, but also on certain solutions to be proposed, largely outweigh their differences. They agree, among other things, on the essential fact of listening to what comes back from the field, on the importance of establishing social dialogue and on a distrust of teleworking, reserved for a minority of employees. The first adds that there is no “Shit jobs as we often hear about cashiers. To say this is to deny them”while the second notes that “people love their work, but don’t like the way they are made to do it.”
Will for autonomy
The two leaders are addressing a left that is broken down on the subject. For Laurent Berger, “the big question concerns second-line professions. How do we get everyone on board, and not just the 300 companies that represent half of the employees? ». As for François Ruffin, he seeks to unite the working classes, for whom “work has remained a central value”, and the intermediate classes, attracted by the ecological project, in a historic block.
For its part, the magazine Futuribles gives the floor to the political scientist Pierre Bréchon, who shows that individualization corresponding to a desire for autonomy in all areas of life has progressed significantly in the countries of Northern, Western and Southern Europe, while that Eastern Europe and Russia remain dominated by the values of individualism.
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