LE FIGARO. - What assessment do you draw from the virulent social protest produced in France by the pension reform? Why did a reform that passed without great difficulty in all European countries have so much difficulty in passing in our country?
Philippe d'IRIBARNE. - We cannot understand what is happening without taking into account the way in which a solution has been found, in France as it has been elsewhere, to a formidable question: how to reconcile the status of salaried worker subject to the authority of an employer with the status of free citizen of a democratic State? The image of the serf "cutable and corvéable at will" remains present in the imagination, ready to be taken up by the trade union discourse when workers' rights are threatened. The path of conciliation that prevailed everywhere was marked by a traditional image of the free man: in the Germanic world, the one who decides with his peers the orientations of the community they form; in the world...
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