Is the societal dialogue at the local level the future of social dialogue?

Jean-Yves Boulin and Ulrich Mückenberger
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Jean-Yves Boulin: CNRS and IRIS-CREDEP/Paris Dauphine University
Ulrich Mückenberger: Centre of International Studies/University of Hamburg

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2005, vol. 11, issue 3, 439-448

Abstract: The modern ‘network society’ restructures the system of ‘voice’ as it has come down from the past. Decision-making is drifting away from particular plants, organisations and institutions, and is becoming fluid — whereas voice remains fixed to plants, organisations and institutions. The tentative thesis put forward in this article is that only both regional/local and global ‘voice networking’ may be capable of coping with the decision-making character of the network society. This leads to efforts to integrate, into the bargaining processes, also representatives of civil society — NGOs on a European and supranational level, various ‘stakeholders' on a local and regional level. This gives two new roles to social dialogue: it has to take place not only on a sectoral, but also on a territorial level (‘la négociation sociale territorialisée’); and it has to ‘open up’ towards the territorial stakeholders (‘le dialogue sociétal’). Local time policies are taken as an example for such a new function of territorial social dialogue.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/102425890501100317

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