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[...] 'La solidarité', Le Télémaque, vol no 2008. - Blais, Marie-Claude. 'At the origins of public solidarity, the work of Léon Bourgeois', Revue française des affaires sociales, no pp. 12-31. Breton, Stanislas. 'The Church according to Saint Paul', Saint Paul. under the direction of Breton Stanislas. Presses Universitaires de France, 1988. [...]
[...] Charle Christophe, Telkès Eva Gide (Charles, Henri, Paul). In: Les professeurs du Collège de France - Dictionnaire biographique 1901-1939. Paris : Institut national de recherche pédagogique pp. 81-83. (Histoire biographique de l'enseignement, Desroches Henri, Solidarités ouvrières: Sociétaires et compagnons dans les associations, Editions ouvrières, Paris p. 143 Draperie Jean-François, La république coopérative, Larcier, Paris, 2012. Dreyfus Michel, Charles Gide in the 20th century, Luc Marco (dir.). Committee for the publication of the works of Charles Gide, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2011. [...]
[...] Such a theoretical outline, sometimes contested against Marxist currents, does not seem to be at the heart of Gide's methodology. On the contrary, often awakened on social issues present - the worker question, the law of separation between Churches and the State - he is interested in tracing back the precise, contextual thread that allows not only to explain but also to understand not only a situation but also its particular configuration (for example, he investigated the different ways in which the cooperative movement developed in foreign territories). [...]
[...] The conception of economics advocated by Charles Gide therefore makes one of the ways to approach economics an analytical, contextual structural analysis. This goes hand in hand with a refusal of abusive theorization of economic issues. In fact, for the economist, another characteristic of the new school it's the intimate penetration [ . ] of theory and practice41 ». It therefore inscribes itself in an active vision of the economy where analysis allows understanding of the historical issues through which problems arise but above all to estimate and think about possible improvements. [...]
[...] From Solidarity as Law The place of solidarity in the definition of economic relations is then primordial. In the introduction, we have extensively returned to the text dedicated to this concept theorized by Charles Gide. Then imbued with the nascent sociological theories as well as a part of political and moral philosophy, Charles Gide conceives the economy as one of the levers that contributes to the systemic transformation: The demonstration of solidarity through the division of labor, as it appears in the internal organization of societies as well as in that of living beings, is, as Edgard Quinet said, the most considerable discovery of our time It is already great, this solidarity: but it is not yet great enough. [...]
