https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Old-Comrades https://booksandideas.net/Old-Comrades 2025-10-09T07:30:00Z text/html en Christian Baudelot Society trade unions workers resistance investigation old age Cairn.info <p>A five-year investigation reveals how the most militant blue-collar workers in Sochaux are growing older but continuing to stand up for their beliefs even after their retirement.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Pits-and-Perverts https://booksandideas.net/Pits-and-Perverts 2025-01-16T07:30:00Z text/html en Marc Lenormand History strike workers United Kingdom <span class="caps">LGBT</span> Cairn.info <p>The encounter between British miners and gay and lesbian activists during the strikes of 1984-85 was explored in the celebrated film Pride. A historian looks back at this memorable period and reveals the continuities between the two movements.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Life-Goin-Nowhere,1706 https://booksandideas.net/Life-Goin-Nowhere,1706 2011-12-14T10:46:13Z text/html en Michael C. Behrent Society United States of America music trade unions cinema workers left <p>Rocky, John Travolta, Bruce Springsteen or the Al Pacino of <i>Dog Day Afternoon</i> are all witnesses to the understudied disappearance of the American working class in the 1970s. During this crucial decade, Nixon took over the working-class vote and workers themselves changed the boundaries of “blue-collar America,” doing away with class interests and embracing a definition of themselves as members of a white culture.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Where-have-the-rebels-gone https://booksandideas.net/Where-have-the-rebels-gone 2010-01-21T15:56:34Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande & François Jarrige Carousel History globalisation Audio Interviews Video Interviews workers la suite gauche rebellion social conflicts tradition Text Interviews <p>Fifty years after his pioneering books on rebellion and social banditry, Eric Hobsbawm explains why he always paid close attention to “uncommon people” and popular forms of revolt, and analyses how globalization has triggered off new political mobilizations.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Immigration-knowledge-and-power https://booksandideas.net/Immigration-knowledge-and-power 2008-05-27T11:03:38Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande & Ivan Jablonka History migration state national identity Audio Interviews nation workers <p>At a time when immigration and national identity have been publicly bundled together as partaking of the same conundrum, historian Gérard Noiriel revisits for laviedesidees.fr the scientific and political issues at stake behind both concepts. Interview.</p>