INTERVIEW - Virginie Girod receives Laure Machu, historian and lecturer, specialist in the history of labor law and social movements, author of "Work in Western Europe from the 1830s to the 1930s" (Rennes University Press). Can we really say that the strike is a French specificity? What was the place of women in the strike movements during the First World War? What are the demands of the demonstrators at the time of the Popular Front in 1936 and why are they called the "strikes of joy"? And how is May 68 a very particular strike movement in history? "There were several strike movements which had a European dimension, where France was not isolated", specifies Laure Machu.

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INTERVIEW - Virginie Girod receives Laure Machu, historian and lecturer, specialist in the history of labor law and social movements, author of "Work in Western Europe from the 1830s to the 1930s" (Rennes University Press). Can we really say that the strike is a French specificity? What was the place of women in the strike movements during the First World War? What are the demands of the demonstrators at the time of the Popular Front in 1936 and why are they called the "strikes of joy" ? And how is May 68 a very particular strike movement in history? "There were several strike movements which had a European dimension, where France was not isolated", specifies Laure Machu.