Archives juives 2006- 2 (Volume 39)| ISSN 0003-9837 | ISSN numérique : en cours | ISBN : 2-251-69422-6 | page 9 à 20 Distribution électronique Cairn pour les éditions Les belles lettres. © Les belles lettres. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. Il est interdit, sauf accord préalable et écrit de l’éditeur, de reproduire (notamment par photocopie) partiellement ou totalement le présent article, de le stocker dans une banque de données ou de le communiquer au public sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit.

ABSTRACT — The Union of cap-makers fills a specific place in the history of the labour movement and syndicate, first due to its early birth, as soon as 1896, and its exceptional claiming action, and due on the other hand to its typical socio-cultural setting-up since it was a professional structure solely constituted of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. 1911-1912, which are the years looked into, witnessed the biggest social tensions of the period preceding the first World War ; at that time, the leader of the syndicate is a Bolshevik exile, A. Lozovski, an experienced man. The cap-makers syndicate stands as a model of structure and struggle for all the Jewish labour movements. This is an outstanding period in the memory of the Jewish labour movements, and the structure model initiated by Lozovski persisted in spite of the ups and downs of the particularly unsteady universe of an immigrated population.

The Union of cap-makers fills a specific place in the history of the labour movement and syndicate, first due to its early birth, as soon as 1896, and its exceptional claiming action, and due on the other hand to its typical socio-cultural setting-up since it was a professional structure solely constituted of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. 1911-1912, which are the years looked into, witnessed the biggest social tensions of the period preceding the first World War ; at that time, the leader of the syndicate is a Bolshevik exile, A. Lozovski, an experienced man. The cap-makers syndicate stands as a model of structure and struggle for all the Jewish labour movements. This is an outstanding period in the memory of the Jewish labour movements, and the structure model initiated by Lozovski persisted in spite of the ups and downs of the particularly unsteady universe of an immigrated population.