PUBLIC RESISTENCES TOWARDS EMMANUEL MACRON’S REFORMS OF THE FRENCH PUBLIC SECTOR – CASE STUDY OF THE RAIL WORKERS (SNCF) STRIKE, MARCH AND APRIL OF THE YEAR 2018.
Keywords:
neo-liberalism, welfare-state, reforms of the public sector, SNCF strike, work legislation, deconstruction of the political movements, social inequalities, new left and new right wing ideologies, Pierre Bourdieu, Emmanuel MacronAbstract
Macron`s victory on the presidential elections of 2017, despite the fact that it largely came as a natural consequence of the rising social tensions and the fragility of the power-balance between the French right and left wing parties, not as a result of the real support that current president Macron had in the French public, have marked the beginning of the new era in the internal policies of the last great global and Eurpean power which still hasn’t abandoned completely its welfare state era work legislation policies. Macron`s election marks the new, final stage of the neo-liberal reforms in France – a struggle for the reform of the French public sector. During the ,,great strike of the SNCF (Société générale des chemins de fer) of 1995, Pierre Bourdieu had predicted that it will be the reform of the public sector which will mark the beginning of the end of the great global, historical, economic, social, political and cultural process that lasted for more than three decades, as well as the fact that it will fall upon the confederation of French rail syndicates, SNCF, to form the ,,last stronghold`` against the neo-liberal redorms of the French public sector. While the strike of 1995 have brought to an end the initial wave of neo-liberal reforms in France, and subsequently contributed to the fall of Miterrand`s second cohabitation, the strike of 2018 not only failed to achieve a greater effect on the further campaign for the continous reforms, but went almost completely unnoticed by the wider French public. It will be the question of the gas price which will cause the ,,yellow vest`s rebellion``, not the question of the future of the French public sector. This paper has for it`s main goal to try to gain a new perspective of the new historical, social, economic and cultural phenomena, through the research of the causes for such a development, and to see how these phenomenon influenced the new political and social reality of France in the ten year aftermath of the world`s economic crises.
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