A century of solidarity

Histoire du syndicat socialiste

Avec un taux de 68%, la Belgique se situe parmi les pays les plus syndicales. The FGTB assembles more than a million people and even more. During the economic years, it is very important to be part of an incontournable part of the socio-economic concertation. Son histoire tout comme son rôle social restent toutefois peu connus. The presentation looks at the combination of the lacuna and the different facets of the socialist syndicalism in Belgium.
A premiere part of the chronological retracement of the history of the movement, the constitution of the Commission Syndicale in 1898 and the evolution of the day. A second part about the angle of the role of the FGTB in the society, notation and social concertation. Premiere synthesis of the history of the FGTB, illustrating the nombreux documents in the design of the syndicate of the amateurs of the social history

There is also a Dutch version: A century of solidarity

Luc Peiren & Jean-Jacques Missiaen
FGTB/Ludion/AMSAB/IEV, Bruxelles/Gand, 1997, 212 p., ill., softcover