Steel, State, and Labor: Mobilization and Adjustment in FranceThe creation of wealth depends on the capacity of economic actors to adapt to market changes. Such adaptation, in turn, poses fundamental questions about the distribution of resources. Daley investigates the interaction among business, labor, and the state in France in the second half of the twentieth century and reveals how political dynamics refract market pressures. He explains how and why profitability came at the expense of union mobilization, unemployment, and management autonomy, vast amounts of state aid, and less national control over industrial decision making. |
Contents
| 3 | |
2 The Adjustment Triangle | 19 |
3 The Postwar Steel Industry | 50 |
4 Labours Response to Exclusion | 72 |
5 The Creation of National Champions in Steel | 93 |
6 The Politics of Industrial Decline | 121 |
7 Competitive Success | 147 |
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Steel, State, and Labor: Mobilization and Adjustment in France Anthony Daley No preview available - 1996 |
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