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What is the nature of the crisis in French unionism? A reading from the perspective of models of production
Author(s) :
Calderon Gil, Jose [Auteur]
Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019

Centre Lillois d'Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques (CLERSE) - UMR 8019
Journal title :
Workers of the World. International Journal on Strikes and Social Conflicts
Volume number :
9
Publisher :
Cornell University
Publication date :
2018-05
ISSN :
2182-893
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie
English abstract : [en]
The gradual change in the model of production since the 1970s produced a heterogenization and polarization of workers’ terms of employment— between, on the one hand, a segment of workers with stable employment, legal ...
Show more >The gradual change in the model of production since the 1970s produced a heterogenization and polarization of workers’ terms of employment— between, on the one hand, a segment of workers with stable employment, legal protection and good representation by the unions and on the other hand an increasingly populous segment of peripheral workers who were cut off collective bargaining and whose terms of employment were “negotiated" individually when they were hired. By this analysis, it is not so much the institutionalization of French unionism that lies behind its crisis as the de-institutionalization of the wage relationship, one of the conditions of which seems to be the weakening of the union itself. The unions find themselves in a situation where they alone are opposing an increased riskiness in labour relations that, while distancing them from the peripheral segments of the workforce, is locking them into defensive positions.Show less >
Show more >The gradual change in the model of production since the 1970s produced a heterogenization and polarization of workers’ terms of employment— between, on the one hand, a segment of workers with stable employment, legal protection and good representation by the unions and on the other hand an increasingly populous segment of peripheral workers who were cut off collective bargaining and whose terms of employment were “negotiated" individually when they were hired. By this analysis, it is not so much the institutionalization of French unionism that lies behind its crisis as the de-institutionalization of the wage relationship, one of the conditions of which seems to be the weakening of the union itself. The unions find themselves in a situation where they alone are opposing an increased riskiness in labour relations that, while distancing them from the peripheral segments of the workforce, is locking them into defensive positions.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
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Université de Lille
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Submission date :
2023-05-26T09:20:30Z
2023-06-06T09:23:14Z
2023-06-06T09:23:14Z
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