Damné de la terre et homme de marbre. L'ouvrier dans l'imaginaire du PCF du milieu des années trente à la fin des années cinquante

The French Communist Party's Image of the Worker from the Thirties to the End of the Fifties. The FCP developed a veritable myth of the worker around two exemplary figures : metal workers and miners. Starting in 1934, those figures incarnated the nation and prefigured the new man and communist man. These representations of the worker ful filled two primary functions. It allowed for the definition of the communist group and thus contributed to the formation of the FCP's identity. It also set out to mobilize communist party members and sympathizers. The decline of the FCP can be explained in part by the political culture that formed around and became fixated on the primacy of the worker.Lazar Marc. Damné de la terre et homme de marbre. L'ouvrier dans l'imaginaire du PCF du milieu des années trente à la fin des années cinquante. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 45ᵉ année, N. 5, 1990. pp. 1071-1096