10 Facts About Ambroise Croizat

Ambroise Croizat was the general secretary of the Federation des travailleurs de la metallurgie CGT.

Ambroise Croizat's father, Antoine Croizat, was a blue-collar worker, and his mother, Louise Jeannette Piccino, was a weaver.

In 1917, Ambroise Croizat joined the Young Socialist Movement, and then the Parti socialiste in 1918.

Ambroise Croizat began supporting the Section francaise de l'Internationale ouvriere in the Communist International.

Ambroise Croizat participated in the great social movements of the metalworkers of the Lyon area.

Ambroise Croizat negotiated the Parisian metalworking convention, and, as a rapporteur, he presented the collective agreement to the Chamber.

Ambroise Croizat was accused of "having participated in the creation and organisation of the Groupe ouvrier et paysan", and on the night of 7 October 1939, he was arrested.

Ambroise Croizat served as Minister of Labour under the general de Gaulle from 21 November 1945 to 26 January 1946, and Minister of Labour and Social security from 26 January to 16 December 1946 and from 22 January to 4 May 1947.

Ambroise Croizat participated in the foundation of the Social security system: health insurance, pension system, child benefit, and broad reform of French labour laws, through the creation of employee representative committees, occupational medicine, regulation of overtime, and a change of statute for miners.

Ambroise Croizat launched projects concerning employee representatives committees, staff representative's statute, collective agreements, prevention and compensation for workplace accidents, and family benefits.