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| Le Mouvement social | |
|---|---|
| Title | Le Mouvement social |
| Discipline | Social history |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | M. R. Éditions (historical) |
| Country | France |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1960s–present |
Le Mouvement social is a French scholarly journal focused on social history, labor movements, and the history of popular classes. Founded in the mid-20th century, the journal has intersected with debates involving historiography, Marxist theory, and archival practice while engaging historians, sociologists, and political scientists across Europe and the Americas. It has served as a venue for research on revolutions, trade unions, rural protest, and welfare institutions and has published archival discoveries on figures, events, and organizations shaping modern social movements.
The journal was established amid postwar intellectual debates involving figures and institutions such as Fernand Braudel, Marc Bloch, Annales School, Raymond Aron, Georges Lefebvre, and Pierre Bourdieu, shaped by contexts including the May 1968 events in France, the Cold War, the Spanish Transition, and decolonization in Algeria. Early editorial boards included scholars associated with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université de Strasbourg, and research units interacting with archives like the Archives Nationales (France), the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and regional repositories in Lille and Marseille. Debates about labor history referenced organizations and moments such as General Confederation of Labour (CGT), PS, Communist Party of Spain, Italian Socialist Party, British Trades Union Congress, and events like the Russian Revolution, the Paris Commune, and the October Revolution in comparative essays. Founders emphasized interdisciplinarity, bringing into dialogue work on industrialization in Manchester, agrarian change in Provence, colonial policy in Algeria, and immigration in Marseilles.
The editorial mission articulated connections to historiographical traditions including the Annales School, Marxist historiography, and microhistory linked to studies on E.P. Thompson and George Rudé. Central themes have included labor movements exemplified by case studies of the Industrial Revolution, the Factory Acts, and trade union federations such as the Cleveland Miners' Association and the CIO; rural protest examined via episodes like the Peasants' Revolt (1381) and 19th-century enclosure struggles; migration studies drawing on archives from Ellis Island and port cities like Rotterdam; gender and family history using sources about figures like Simone de Beauvoir and institutions such as Hospice de Paris; and welfare-state formation comparing policies in United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Sweden. The journal fostered interdisciplinary exchanges with scholars from institutions including University of Cambridge, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Chicago, and research centers such as Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and International Institute of Social History.
Published quarterly, the journal adopted formats common to European learned periodicals, including long-form articles, archival notes, bibliographic reviews, and thematic dossiers on topics like the Spanish Civil War, the Great Depression, the Vichy regime, and the European Welfare State. Special issues featured comparative studies drawing on case material from United States, Argentina, Chile, Russia, Italy, and Japan. The editorial apparatus included book reviews engaging monographs by authors such as Eric Hobsbawm, Howard Zinn, Jacques Revel, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Robert Paxton, and review symposia responding to works by Charles Tilly and Seymour Martin Lipset. Design changes reflected influences from presses like Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Presses universitaires de France. The journal collaborated with conference series at School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and published proceedings alongside archives from institutions such as the International Labour Organization.
Contributors have included historians and social scientists like Jean-Pierre Vernant, François Furet, Roger Chartier, Jacques Le Goff, Michelle Perrot, Alain Touraine, Lucien Febvre, Georges Duby, Monique Cottret, Olivier Dard, Francesco Benigno, and international voices such as E.P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, Orlando Figes, Natalie Zemon Davis, Robert Darnton, Charles Maier, Seth Rockman, David Montgomery, Isabelle H¨ohn, Patricia Seed, and Manuel Castells. Notable articles analyzed episodes like the Dreyfus Affair, the June Days Uprising, the 1848 Revolutions, the Paris Commune, labor strikes such as the General Strike of 1936 (France), and colonial uprisings including the Algerian War and the Mau Mau Uprising. Methodological interventions addressed oral history practices linked to projects at Smithsonian Institution, quantitative approaches using census material from INSEE, and spatial history employing maps from Institut Géographique National. Archival discoveries published in the journal have cited documents from the British Library, the Vatican Secret Archives, the National Archives (UK), and municipal archives in Lyon and Bordeaux.
Scholarly reception placed the journal within debates alongside periodicals such as Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, Past & Present, Journal of Modern History, and International Review of Social History, influencing curricular choices at Université de Provence and research agendas at institutions like École normale supérieure, Université de Montréal, and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Policymakers and cultural institutions, including Ministry of Culture (France), museums like Musée de l'Homme, and labor organizations such as Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, have cited research disseminated through the journal in exhibitions and reports. Citation networks show impact in monographs published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer, and the journal has been discussed in historiographical surveys addressing Marxism and postwar intellectual history.
The journal is indexed in bibliographic databases and catalogs maintained by institutions like Bibliothèque nationale de France, WorldCat, Scopus, JSTOR, and the European Reference Index for the Humanities. Archival runs and back issues are held in university libraries including Sorbonne University Library, University of Oxford Bodleian Library, Harvard Library, and digital repositories associated with Gallica and institutional repositories at CNRS. Microfilm and digitized collections are accessible through interlibrary loan programs coordinated by networks such as OCLC and regional archives in Normandy and Brittany.
Category:French history journals