Editions of the Workshop

The editions of the Workshop are a publisher which took the continuation, in 1993, of the working Éditions, house which had replaced itself in 1936 the Bookstore of working youth, created in 1929 by the Christian working Jeunesse (JOC) to diffuse its documentation.

Working Editions

The working Editions then the editions of the Workshop have the characteristic to produce rather percussion books on the Social justice the Politique, and the Société. They also publish works of historical research.

Because of their catholic origins, the editions of the Workshop also publish many books in religious matter.

The change of the name of the working Editions in editions of the Workshop results from the financial problems that the company knew with the beginning of the year 1990, consecutive with the failure of its attempt to launch out in the distribution of its works. Forced to engage in a procedure of voluntary liquidation in 1992, the working Editions succeed in rectifying their financial position and start one second life in June 1993 by changing name. That allowed the continuation of the philosopher's stone of which they were editors. Indeed, for the professionals as for the amateurs of social History and worker, the editions of the Workshop are known to be the editor of the biographical Dictionnaire of the labor movement French then, since 2006, of the biographical Dictionnaire, labor movement, social movement .

It is in 1958, that the working Editions make the decision to support the project of Jean Maitron. Nothing was less foreseeable than the meeting of the researcher Jean Maitron, author of a thesis on the Anarchisme, wire of a laic teacher and trade unionist, with the director of the catholic publisher, André the Villette. This last, born on October 22nd, 1917 in Pithiviers (Loiret), had militated with the JOC, had taken part in the team which made appear in clandestinity Christian Témoignage before entering into 1948 to the working Editions. It is literary director there, then finance manager. It is for this reason that the social history him must have assumed the bet of the publication of a biographical Dictionnaire of the labor movement French , whose Jean Maitron had presented the project to him. The working Editions had then as directors: Daniel Angleraud, Andre Jondeau, Daniel Prin then, after the name change in Editions of the Workshop, Bernard Stéphan.

Committed managers

Parallel to his leading activities, André the Villette occupied of the elective functions: he was mayor of Fresnes in the the Valley-of-Marne between 1965 and 1985. He was also vice-president of the General advice of the Valley-of-Marne. When it takes its retirement in 1982, it is again in the fish pond of the militants of the JOC and the working catholic Action (ACO) that the working Éditions find their director. However the choice is not common. It is about Daniel Angleraud (1937-1993), which has just left its post of administrator of the CCAS of EDF, where it represents the CGT. It militates with this trade union since 1954. Daniel Angleraud remains only three years with the direction of the publisher, always installed then in his historical seat, close to the place of Italy, street of the Sister-Rosalie (Paris, 13th). In 1987 indeed, he is elected member of the confederal office of CGT.

Maitron

This long-term company began in 1964, by the publication with the working Editions of the first volume. It resulted from patients research tasks and constitution of research teams carried out by the historian Jean Maitron, then by Claude Pennetier. His research, Jean Maitron first of all carried out them out of the institutional university framework. He continued them with the Université Paris I, within the framework of an institute of history of the social movements, structure within which work its successors, Claude Pennetier and Michel Dreyfus. With the passing of years, the biographical Dictionary of the labor movement French , commonly called Maitron , became leading extensive seldom reached.

With regard to the French labor movement, 44 volumes made it possible to follow more than 100.000 militants, over one period going of the French Révolution at 1939.

1789-1864: volumes 1-3
1864-1871: volumes 4-9
1871-1914: volumes 10-15
1914-1939: volumes 16-43
volume 44 brings complements on the whole of the period covered by the 43 preceding volumes.
the publication of a fifth period (1940-1968), entitled biographical Dictionary, labor movement, social movement , was born in 2006 with the publication of the first two volumes (ten others will follow, each one accompanied by a cédérom supplementing paper volume substantially). This new period overflows the traditional labor movement to also explore what it is agreed to call the “Social movement”.

Paper, attribute essential of the dictionaries, tends to yield the step to the edition on cédérom. Maitron follows technological advance: in 1998, 43 volumes, which occupied 1,50 meters of racks, were republished and enriched by complements into only one cédérom. More than 600 researchers took part in this philosopher's stone which overflows the national borders. Several specialized historians contributed to make appear volumes on:

the Austria
the Great Britain
the Germany
the Japan
the Morocco
the China
the Comintern
the “Social ” in America
the Algeria

Sets of themes volumes, centered on the militants of an professional environment, were carried out:

Gas-electricians
Railwaymen and militant

Sources

Special issue of the review the Social movement , with Jean Maitron, October-November 1988.
Madeleine Rebérioux, “people of the shade”, Le Monde , December 1987.
Michelle Perrot, “working lives”, in Pierre Nora, Places of memory, III. File with the emblem , Gallimard, 1992.
Note “Andre the Villette” in the biographical Dictionary of the labor movement French , volume 43, p. 252-253.
Claude Pennetier, Dictionary of the movement social workman-movement , volume 45, Editions of the Workshop, Paris, 2006.

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