This work is the autobiography of a worker activist who recounts his eventful adolescence, as well as a chaotic professional career. He works in Anjou, Sarthe, Haute-Savoie and Lyon. During his life, he traveled a large part of the country, became a trade unionist, became interested in politics and ended up as an employee advisor. His family life is strewn with a few pitfalls, while his professional career is full, due to his union involvement which gets him into a lot of trouble. In this book, Daniel Dubois talks about banking systems and people born poor, who have no chance of becoming rich. It also addresses the cohort of millions mistreated and sacrificed of all kinds on the altar of capital.
About the author
Daniel Dubois was born in 1953 in the Faubourg Saint-Michel in Angers, a very popular neighborhood. It was here that he grew up with his family until the age of 17. After the 1968 strike and all sorts of stupid things, he was placed in a center in Bourges where convicts of all ages rub shoulders. During this same period, trade unionism made its appearance and it was within these one hundred and fifty-eight companies with diverse activities that the author met hundreds of employees. He will be dismissed several times for incompatibility of social relations with capital, for obvious salary reasons and for taking an interest in the defense and organization of workers.
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“Consciousness, once awakened, must be expanded. The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. United, they will win. » This book is a fictionalized autobiography of the journey of Daniel, 70 years old, who dedicated his life to social progress and raising employee awareness of the importance of collective consciousness. During his career, he has worked in two-thirds of the country and in numerous companies and temp agencies. Despite this, it is clear that for generations, his family has worked tirelessly and has never become a millionaire. For the author, this is proof that you cannot become rich through work. On the other hand, the physical and mental repercussions of work and this liberal society on the health of those around you are very present. Based on this observation, Daniel then joined the company as employee advisor, staff representative and CSSCT. It was then that he suffered and witnessed anti-union repression. This book is full of funny, surprising anecdotes, ranging from his teenage period to his desire to act, including job breakups with bosses, directors, and CEOs, whom he compares to despots.
Extract : “A few days later, he started in the Écouflant Zone, in the company Lendex, as drilling manager on a permanent contract with a trial period of one month. The factory only manufactures machined parts, more mechanical than boilermaking, a drilling sector is being set up, expanding and it is looking for a drilling manager. Daniel corresponds to the desired profile, the work consists of adjusting the multi-spindle drills, the employees thread the parts to be drilled, “the adjuster” installs the machine, puts in the drills, the cutters, blocks the template-matrix, burette and he shows the employee one or two rooms. The adjuster checks the finished parts from time to time, discusses with the employee the bonus, the time given for the series, it is he who adjusts the speed of the multi-spindle drills, a well-paid job but with the bonus. Daniel was quite happy, from Gigi's the bus was direct to the terminus and then an eight hundred meter walk to reach Lendex. Daniel had contact with an employee of Lendex, a comrade of the PCF, rather nice at first glance, he asks Dudu if he knows the Communist Party? He answers yes, that he has an uncle in the Party! Marcel wants to explain to this young person that in the party there is a branch called the JC, the young communists, the idea excites him because Marcel is talking about the bosses, the capitalists, the working class. Suddenly, in May 1968, there were communists leaving the school, revolutionary communists! Marcel replies that these are young revolutionary communists JCR who made common cause with the party, were dissolved after 68. He gives him the address of the PCF in Angers and to finish the discussion asks me to join the CGT, Daniel asks him to meet at work because he considers that there are problems with drilling. »
Practical information: “The life of a worker activist” by Daniel Dubois published by Baudelaire. ISBN code: 979-10-203-6662-7.
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