If the government asks questions about the functioning of the minimum wage, our popular culture has never ceased to bear witness to the demand for an increase in low wages.
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“Give me a black minimum wage, give me a black minimum wage” : there are not many songs that address in a few words so many serious social problems: low wages, undeclared work, racial discrimination in the job market… It’s Doc Gynéco in 2005 And he also talks about his escape from precariousness, once he became an artist.
After Doc Gynéco, undeclared worker on construction sites at the beginning of the 21st centurye century, the Lunaisians resumed The Song of the Workerswork by Pierre Dupont in 1846.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:
Doc Gynéco, Give me a minimum wage, 2005
The Lunaisians, The Song of the Workers, 1846 (2014 recording)
The Wabco-Westinghouses, 1977
Sylvain Girault, The Sud-Aviation Strike, 1968 (2007 recording)
PTT solidarity, Postal workers solidarity users, 1970
The Wabco-Westinghouses, 1977
Long live the Chausson strike, 1975
Kaaris, Se-vrak, 2015
Vald, I could, 2019
Assault Sexion, Endurance, 2012
The Octaves, We won’t move, 1972
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