E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten
Howell Regulating Labor
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2079-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France
E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2079-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
In May and June of 1968 a dramatic wave of strikes paralyzed France, making industrial relations reform a key item on the government agenda. French trade unions seemed due for a golden age of growth and importance. Today, however, trade unions are weaker in France than in any other advanced capitalist country. How did such exceptional militancy give way to equally remarkable quiescence? To answer this question, Chris Howell examines the reform projects of successive French governments toward trade unions and industrial relations during the postwar era, focusing in particular on the efforts of post-1968 conservative and socialist governments. Howell explains the genesis and fate of these reform efforts by analyzing constraints imposed on the French state by changing economic circumstances and by the organizational weakness of labor. His approach, which links economic, political, and institutional analysis, is broadly that of Regulation Theory. His explicitly comparative goal is to develop a framework for understanding the challenges facing labor movements throughout the advanced capitalist world in light of the exhaustion of the postwar pattern of economic growth, the weakening of the nation-state as an economic actor, and accelerating economic integration, particularly in Europe.
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Pt. 1 Introduction 1
Ch. 1 A Theory of Labor Regulation 3
Pt. 2 The Rise and Decline of Fordist Labor Regulation 31
Ch. 2 Exclusionary Labor Regulation, 1945-58 37
Ch. 3 Labor Regulation in Crisis, 1958-69 61
Ch. 4 The New Society and Its Enemies, 1969-74 82
Ch. 5 Labor Regulation in Transition, 1974-81 111
Pt. 3 Socialist Labor Regulation 143
Ch. 6 Desperately Seeking Socialism 148
Ch. 7 The Two Logics of the Auroux Laws 166
Ch. 8 The Search for Flexibility 186
Pt. 4 Conclusion 207
Ch. 9 The Future of Labor Regulation 209
Notes 229
Selected Bibliography 265
Index 279
