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This article studies circulations between Algeria and France from the 1950s to the 1980s to analyze the social dynamics characteristic of Algerians in France and to highlight their range of choices and trajectories. Bypassing the historiographically dominant focus on male guest workers, this article claims that most flows between Algeria and France involved women and children, as well as men who had settled in France a long time ago. Moreover, it shows a large emigration flow from France to Algeria: of business men, vacationers or people moving back to Algeria. This analysis relies on statistical data as well as migrants' testimonies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article asks whether the wave of protest in the fall of 2010 in France can be interpreted as evidence of persisting radicalism. It argues that, in spite of appearances, the French labor movement is no longer radical. This claim does not imply that industrial conflict is disappearing. Strong legacies and institutional processes still feed conflict in the workplace and often push workers to use contentious, extra-institutional means; but industrial conflict is not what it used to be, with the total number of working days lost to strikes decreasing steadily over the past forty years, and with conflict itself being reconfigured and transformed. Labor contention is no longer driven by an offensive agenda and has become essentially defensive. If there is radicalism left in France, it might be best described as a "radicalism of tradition." The article concludes by discussing the relevance of "radicalism" as an analytical category to make sense of labor contention in contemporary France. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a profile of the French urban sociologist Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe and an exploration into the development of his social philosophy. Discussion is given highlighting how Chombart de Lauwe's involvement with the working class evolved his activities in the discipline of sociology into a city-planning democratization advocate during the post-World War II era. Comments are given relating the various elements which influenced this turn in Chombart de Lauwe, including his contact with liberal Catholic associations, his research on the needs of the working class, and his studies under ethnologist Marcel Mauss.

This article looks at the religious implications of the scarf affairs that took place in France in 1989 and 2002. The events sparked a call for the prohibition of religious signs in educational institutions. The author notes that political analyses of this legislation have been made but there have been few religious responses published. In this article, the author attempts to make such a response, focusing on how the Jewish leadership reacted in the face of rising anti-Semitic actions.

The article presents abstracts for the featured essays of the issue, including Arnaud's Baubérrot's "Un projet de réforme hygiènique des modes de vie: naturistes et végétariens à la Belle Époque," Max Likin's "'Nothing Fails Like Success': The Marxism of Raymond Aron," and W. Brian Newsome's "Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe: Catholicism, Social Science, and Democratic Planning."