The Lip Affair in the Long 1968
Friday, March 18th, 2016
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 18, 2016 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM | External Event, Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room Sidney Smith Hall 2098 100 St. George Street |
Series
Seminaire conjoint d'histoire de la France / Joint French History Seminar
Description
In 1973, a multinational took control of the Lip watch and mechanics firm in Besançon and planned to lay off half of the labor force. Workers responded by occupying the factory, starting up production, and selling watches to pay their salaries. The conflict resonated throughout France and continued in one form or another until 1981. Analysis of the Lip Affair can open up our understandings of challenges to the political, social, and economic order in the 1968 years in France.
Donald Reid is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Miners of Decazeville and Paris Sewers and Sewermen, both of which have recently appeared in French translation, as well as a book of essays on the memory of the Resistance in France. He has published extensively on the radical impetus in France of the 1968 years and is completing a book on the Lip Affair.
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