L'artisanat. La plus populaire des classes moyennes ?

Are craftsman the most popular of the middle classes ? Bernard Zarca. The very idea of the craftsman class appeared in France only after the First World War, as the resuit of a real work of creation aiming at building the image of a harmonious and fluid social body. But this typical product of republican culture displays many ambiguities, as shown by the complex and circuitous history of craftsmen's representative organizations.Zarca Bernard. L'artisanat. La plus populaire des classes moyennes ?. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°37, janvier-mars 1993. Les classes moyennes. pp. 55-68