Curated by Gilles Guiheux (Université Paris Cité) and Eric Florence (Université de Liège), this digital exhibition “is the fruit of the collective work of historians and sociologists as part of the Eurasemploi program directed by Bernard Thomann (Inalco) and funded by the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR). The research focused on the workers' experience of precariousness in Japan, France and Belgium during the Trente Glorieuses period, on the one hand, and on China from the 1980s to the present day, on the other. Analyzing how rapid economic growth transformed (or not) the condition of workers in these three contexts, the exhibition helps us to think about the invariants of capitalism.
The exhibition gives voice to the richness and diversity of around a hundred documents of various kinds: texts, images, videos, interviews, and oral records. Some of these documents were produced by employers, trade unions, journalists or experts conducting surveys, and others by the workers themselves (autobiographies, poems, songs). The exhibition allows for a variety of narratives and invites the public to immerse themselves in the three main sections of the site: lives (biographical and migratory trajectories), bodies (processes of control and labor), and struggles (collective mobilizations and cultural practices). Visitors can move between these three entries and create and archive their visit, using the ‘select document’ icon”.
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