À la recherche d'une mémoire collective : les métallurgistes retraités de Givors

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1980

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Metal trade--Employees

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Yves Lequin et al., « À la recherche d'une mémoire collective : les métallurgistes retraités de Givors », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1980.282617


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In search of collective memory : the retired metal-workers of Givors. Y. Lequin and J. Metral. Givors is a small town, just south of Lyon, which grew during the first industrial revolution and is now experiencing an economic crisis. The primary aim of this survey of the memory of the metal-workers of Givors was simply to complement quantitative approach to geographic and social mobility. The metal-workers' discourse is centred on their apprenticeship, a crucial period, as well as on a few other important episodes, and proceeds in a series of images prompted by mnemonic props (place-names, nicknames, events, etc.) which play on their sensitivity. The group's homogeneity appears more clearly in the values which emerge form work-life and which still need to be examined more closely. Above all, it was the very act of the survey itself, which generated snowball reaction, leading from one person to another, which made it possible to distinguish over and above the specificity of personal memories common and a collective memory. If the former can be defined in terms of the frequency of topics (for which it is difficult to assess the exact part played by the social and ideological frameworks), the later arises from the very approach of the overlappning interviews through which the group emerges by telling its own story in several voices which are not necessarily in agreement.

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