Workers' Participation in Post-liberation FranceWorkers' Participation in Post-Liberation France is a vivid portrait of French labor's failure to achieve greater industrial democracy. Drawing on original archival research, Adam Steinhouse recasts the traditional view of this critical period of French history, demonstrating the fundamental importance of the immediate post-liberation period in determining the future course of industrial relations in France. He brings to life the labor disputes of the 1940s, charting the interplay between industry and politicians that dealt a crushing blow to organized labor's demands for political change. Steinhouse captures the rise of state intervention in the economy and plots the growth of French employers' organized intransigence in the face of workers' collective action; which culminated in a series of actions effectively marginalizing labor's voice in the economic boom of the early 1950s. Steinhouse's impressive scholarship provides an excellent case study of the French state and its efforts to balance growing worker demands for representation with the imperatives of social peace and prosperity. This book makes a significant contribution to modern French political history and the development of modern industrial relations. |
Contents
The State the CGT Employers Actors and Theories | 9 |
Promotion of Participation by the State | 57 |
Participation in the Workplace | 87 |
Constraints on Participation The Workplace | 119 |
Constraints on Participation The CGT | 141 |
Constraints on Participation The State | 171 |
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administration Alexandre Parodi Ambroise Croizat Antoine Prost April arrêté Benoît Frachon Berliet CAC TR Cambridge University Press centralised CFTC chapter cited Claus Offe CNPF comité de gestion comités d'entreprise Commission Supérieure Communist Conventions Collectives d'une December délégués demands divisional labour inspector economic Éditions employers F1cIII firm Fondation nationale française Générale Gérard Noiriel immediate post-Liberation period immigrant increased industrial relations intervention January June Kuisel l'État labour movement Libération Lyon Marseille Meurthe-et-Moselle minister of labour Ministry nationale des sciences nationalisation Noiriel November October Offe and Wiesenthal officials organisations ouvriers Paris party Pas-de-Calais Patrick Fridenson patronat Peyrenet political Popular Front postwar pouvoirs prefect prendrons les usines Princeton production Raymond Aubrac Renault René report of Commissaire report of Préfet République à Marseille Rhône role salaires salary September SFIO Shennan Socialist strike syndicale syndicalisme tion trade unions travailleurs Vichy Vinen worker participation workplace Yves Farge
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Page ix - CGPME : Confédération Générale des Petites et Moyennes Entreprises. CGT : Confédération Générale du Travail. CGT-FO : Confédération Générale du Travail-Force Ouvrière.