Jusqu'au bout. Vieillir et résister dans le monde ouvrier

Bruno, Christian, Clairette, Christiane, and Viviane are former Peugeot employees from Sochaux-Montbéliard. Battered by factory work, these retirees place union activism and friendly solidarity at the heart of their lives. Through what experiences do they learn to grow old together Through a sensitive exploration of their daily lives, this book reveals a little-known reality: that of physical and social aging in the working class. It sheds new light on forgotten issues surrounding pension reform and on the political disengagement of the working class, highlighting the importance of local resistance to capitalism and the far right. Reconnecting, thirty years later, with some of the subjects interviewed in The Weight of the World, Nicolas Renahy offers a lived sociology of old age and social belonging, inviting us to rethink the working-class condition in light of class, gender, and generational relations. Neither passive nor inactive, these former factory workers are far from being sidelined by their retirement. While the end of the working class is constantly being predicted, these veterans continue to fight, to stand in solidarity, and to pass on to younger generations the meaning of the struggle against injustice. Right to the very end.