The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in
the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968"
and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as
French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the
student movement changed little that had not already been
challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The
workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but
these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor
movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual
transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the
revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have
attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful,
renewed, and freer society in France and beyond.
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