Raining Stones

Elise ou la vraie vie, Claire Etcherelli - Travail et intégration sociale, B. Flacher, Bréal - Le Chômage, J. Freyssinet, Collections Repères, La Découverte. Films : - Marche à l’ombre de M. Blanc - Une époque formidable de G. Jugnot - Raining Stones de K. Loach - La haine de M.Kassovitz - La crise de P. Jolivet 97 L O I N François Bourguignon, Le risque particulier du chômage, Esprit. P L U S Le marché du travail peut être comparé à un jeu de chaises musicales. Les joueurs

while near the doorway a pink stream from a dyeing establishment poured into the gutter. Pools of stagnant water stood in the courtyard, all littered with shavings and fragments of charcoal. A few pale tufts of grass struggled up between the flat stones, and the whole courtyard was lit but dimly. In the shade near the water faucet three small hens were pecking with the vain hope of finding a worm, and Gervaise looked about her, amazed at the enormous place which seemed like a little world and as

interest and my chief source of happiness. (Bertrand Russell 1967, p. 36) Perhaps the central problem of the history of mathematics is that the texts we confront are at once strange and (with a little work) familiar. If we read Aristotle on how stones move, or on how one should treat slaves, it is clear that he belongs to a different time and place. If we read Euclid on rectangles, we may be less certain. Indeed, one could fill a whole chapter with examples taken from the Elements, the most famous

did not go to her, because he was giving lessons and getting by somehow. About a month and a half ago he had remembered the address; he had two things suitable for pawning: his father's old silver watch, and a small gold ring with three little red stones of some kind, given him as a keepsake by his sister when they parted. He decided to pawn the ring. Having located the old woman, who, from the very first glance, before he knew anything particular about her, filled him with insurmountable loathing