Ways to Get Out, Michel Rocard

"The increase in unemployment, which no statistical trickery can conceal, reflects our society's inability to adapt to the new technical, social, and economic landscape. It signals the powerlessness of its elites to recognize and analyze it."

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For Michel Rocard, a true crisis of civilization affects work; faced with an inevitable change, our society as a whole has failed to react.

The former Prime Minister delivers a severe diagnosis that is also a collective self-criticism. He highlights the deep-seated reasons for the inexorable rise of unemployment and demonstrates the ineffectiveness of all techniques used so far to combat it.

But Michel Rocard doesn't just denounce.

He proposes. Mass unemployment can only be effectively fought by a massive reduction in working hours. The whole question is "how to do it?". Michel Rocard provides his answers.

He thus explains the ways out of the crisis.