« Des catholiques contre le nacionalcatólicismo ? » : le syndicalisme d’inspiration catholique et l’immigration espagnole en France durant les années 1960

Abstract

tenter de comprendre comment des immigrés ont pu acquérir une stratégie d’autonomie syndicale porteuse de valeurs d’inspiration catholique pensées comme démocratiques et alternatives à celles portées par le national-catholicisme. This article focuses on the work of Catholic trade unionism that targeted Spanish immigration in France between 1961 and 1968. Based on how CFTC-CFDT trade unions interacted with Spanish immigrants, compared to Catholic workers movements such as the Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne (Young Christian Workers, JOC/JOC-F), this article shall elucidate how French Catholic trade unionism allowed for a critique of Francoism to emerge. In other words, this article tries to rethink the “Catholic specificity” of these immigrant groups, and to understand how immigrants were able to acquire a strategy of union autonomy that conveyed Catholic values that were democratic alternatives to those embodied by Spanish National Catholicism.