Manuscript
Factory Journal
Journal d'usine
Daily notes of pieces, pace, wages, accidents and moods. It records how fatigue and haste destroy the capacity to think and how submission settles into the body. Her idea of affliction and her claim to have received 'the mark of slavery' come from this experience.
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Authorship note
Notebook kept between December 1934 and August 1935 while working at Alsthom, Basse-Indre and Renault; published in La Condition ouvrière (1951).
Editions and translations
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La Condition ouvrière
Gallimard (Folio Essais), 2002
ISBN 9782070423958
Other works by Simone Weil
- Gravity and Grace · 1947
- The Need for Roots · 1949
- Waiting for God · 1950
- Notebooks · 1951
- First and Last Notebooks (Supernatural Knowledge) · 1950
- Reflections concerning the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppression · 1934
- Oppression and Liberty · 1955
- The Worker's Condition (La Condition ouvrière) · 1951
- The Iliad, or the Poem of Force · 1940
- The Greek Source · 1953
- Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks · 1951
- Letter to a Priest · 1951
- London Writings and Last Letters · 1957
- Human Personality (The Person and the Sacred) · 1943
- On the Abolition of All Political Parties · 1943
- Draft for a Statement of Human Obligations · 1943
- Project for a Formation of Front-Line Nurses · 1940
- Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God · 1942
- The Love of God and Affliction · 1942
- Forms of the Implicit Love of God · 1942
- Spiritual Autobiography · 1942
- Unordered Thoughts on the Love of God · 1962
- Lectures on Philosophy · 1959
- Science and Perception in Descartes · 1930
- On Science · 1966
- Historical and Political Writings · 1960
- Letter to Georges Bernanos · 1938
- Let Us Not Start the Trojan War Again · 1937
- Venice Saved · 1955
- Poems · 1968
- Correspondence · 1982
- Complete Works · 1988
Sources
- Weil, Simone. La Condition ouvrière. Paris: Gallimard (col. «Espoir»), 1951 (incluye el Journal d'usine). Texto en Wikisource.
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