"No System Can Remain if It Does Not Integrate the Majority of Its Poorest Citizens"

"The change is not down to a conspiracy, a wish to cast aside the poor, but to a model where employment is increasingly polarised. This comes with a new social geography: employment and wealth have become more and more concentrated in the big cities. The deindustrialised regions, rural areas, small and medium-size towns are less and less dynamic. But it is in these places–in 'peripheral France' (one could also talk of peripheral America or peripheral Britain)–that many working-class people live. Thus, for the first time, 'workers' no longer live in areas where employment is created, giving rise to a social and cultural shock."

Christophe Guilluy at The Guardian explains the rise of the gilets jaunes movement in France.