In recent years, we have talked a lot about full employment.
It was essential as mass unemployment has eaten away at French society since the end of the Trente Glorieuses.
We salute this exit from the rut in which we had been bogged down for forty years.
But full employment cannot hide the emergence of "working poor", as in the United States or the United Kingdom, and it has not prevented certain European countries - Austria, Norway, Sweden - from switching to coalitions government including the extreme right.
It cannot constitute a social project on its own, because it does not meet the expectations of our fellow citizens in terms of work.
Witness the current demonstrations, in which we hear less about pensions per se than about wages and hardship.
Our relationship to work has changed.
As a study by the Jean Jaurès Foundation shows, it has become less of an end and more of a means.
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