Regulating labor : the state and industrial relations reform in postwar France / Chris Howell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howell, Chris, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Government policy--France.

Labor unions.

Labor unions--France.

Industrial relations--Government policy--France.

Industrial relations.

Industrial relations--France.

France--Politics and government--1958-.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Part One: Introduction

Chapter One. A Theory of Labor Regulation

Part Two: The Rise and Decline of Fordist Labor Regulation

Chapter Two. Exclusionary Labor Regulation, 1945-58

Chapter Three, Labor Regulation in Crisis, 1958-69

Chapter Four. The New Society and Its Enemies, 1969-74

Chapter Five. Labor Regulation in Transition, 1974-81

Part Three. Socialist Labor Regulation

Chapter Six. Desperately Seeking Socialism

Chapter Seven. The Two Logics of the Auroux Laws

Chapter Eight. The Search for Flexibility

Part Four: Conclusion

Chapter Nine. The Future of Labor Regulation

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Yale University).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-277) and index.

ISBN:

9786612751622

9781282751620

128275162X

9781400820795

1400820790

9781400812134

1400812135

OCLC:

228042962