La popularité des conflits
2019
La Popularité des conflits (The popularity of disputes) is the story of a red book that gradually loses its colour. It brings together one hundred opinion surveys published the day after demonstrations, strikes and industrial actions in various press publications. These surveys all gauge the sympathy of public opinion for a given dispute, showing in the form of a percentage, the presumed degree of popular support for the demonstration or protest, themselves already popular manifestations of opinion. The surveys are presented in order of popularity, the most popular first, the percentage of support displayed by the percentage of solid red colour on the corresponding page.
The shade of red used for this book was taken from an engraving in the flyleaf of the first edition (1967) of Maurice Dommanget’s work, Histoire du drapeau rouge (history of the red flag).
