History and crisis of industrial societies

Whether using the term deindustrialization, or the lexical field of decline, fall or disappearance, the question of the crisis of industrial societies, in the sense given to the term by the 19th century West, is omnipresent in public debate, but is also the subject of a growing number of historicalstudies. The aim of this seminar will be to take an overview of this research, looking at the notion of the crisis of industrial societies in the broadest sense, which means not reducing it to a single space or chronological period (the deindustrialization that began in the West in the 1970s), or to the economic dimension alone: The aim will be to examine protean changes in the definition of individuals and groups, starting with the world of the worker, the forms of work and the imaginaries that surround them, the way in which industrialised states function, the relationship between time and space, etc.

For this first year of the seminar, we will concentrate on a certain number of key words and concepts, as well as on a certain number of questions of method. Each session will be introduced by the presentation of the seminar coordinator and / or a speaker. This will have been prepared by circulating one or more texts to all the participants and summarised by a discussant. The discussant will then be responsible for launching the discussion with all the members of the seminar.
This seminar is open to all professors, researchers, doctoral candidates and Master students, from Sciences Po and elsewhere.

Provisional Calendar 2023-2024

• September 19, 2023, 17h-19h 
  Introduction générale par Marion Fontaine.
  Que peut-on comprendre par "crise des sociétés industrielles" ?
• Octobre 17, 2023, 17h-19h 
  Bernard Thomann (INALCO)
  La disparition de la classe ouvrière ? Interrogations croisées France-Japon
• November 21, 2023
  Bastien Cabot (post-doctorant Sciences Po, CHSP) et Marion Fontaine
  Des mondes miniers perpétuellement en crise (XIXe-XXe siècle) ?
• December 19, 2023
  Hélène Saudrais (CFDT)
  Archives et crises des sociétés industrielles : quelles pistes de recherche ?
• February 6, 2024 ▸ Register
  François Jarrige (LIR3S - Université de Bourgogne), Marion Fontaine 
  Industrialisation et désindustrialisation : commen penser ce couple à nouveaux frais ?
• March 5, 2024
  Stefan Berger (Institüt für Soziale Bewegungen - Ruhr Univesität, Bochum) et Marion Fontaine
  "The concept of desindustrialization, a comparative perspective"
• Avril 9, 2024
  Marion Henry (CHS - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  "Le genre de la désindustrialisation : renouvellements historiques et perspectives"
• April 23, 2024
  Cyril Lemieux (LIER-EHESS) et Marion Fontaine
  Crise, modernité et modernisation : regards historiques et sociologiques