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The Affaire Lip refers to the course and actions of a strike that took place at the Lip watchmaking factory in Besançon (Doubs). Begun in the early 1970s, the struggle lasted until mid-1976 and mobilized tens of thousands of people across France and Europe, notably at the Lip march on September 29, 1973, which brought together more than 100,000 demonstrators in a dead city.
Other elements also contributed to the scale of this workers' struggle, such as the strike mode, which for the first time in history included "self-management" in a company, with striking workers working on their own account and producing watches in their factories, before selling them at "wild sales"; but also because of the political aspect of the affair, which took a national turn when the government of the day had no choice but to kill off the company in order to avoid a nationwide "labor and trade union upsurge".
The Affair Lip marked a radical change in the trade union movement and the rise of "spontaneous" movements, widely reported in the media. It gave rise to an abundance of press and film footage portraying the company director and shareholders as "rotten".[1]