Avoir 20 ans aujourd'hui.... Courage camarade

Abstract

In 1975, faced with the obvious consequences of the status of "young people" and the reversal of the employment market, the government laid the foundation stone to an edifice which it certainly did not expect to last. The continuing difficulties, an unhoped for social and political "calm" led to and consolidated, at the expense of both the young and the elderly, a form of short term management of the social consequences of the economic organisation which was being operated. The fringe of the active population had to absorb and did absorb, without toppling the base, the induced tensions of the new conditions of exercice of a salaried activity resulting from this redistribution of productive activities. The compromise which enabled France to emerge from the post war slump was "globally" conserved. In 1995, after twenty years of day to day management of the difficulties, the edifice can no longer take yet anather "face lift". The ceaseless construction of new categories to "fill up the cracks" should perhaps stand aside at last ? Surely the time has come for a redefinition of the meaning of the procedures for the "inclusion of disadvantaged young people ?"