Liberté: Employers on the Move

Steve Jefferys

Chapter 7 in Liberté, Égalité and Fraternité at Work, 2003, pp 186-208 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The winning recipe that the French employers have relied on since 1950 for higher than average European levels of productivity growth has three core ingredients: their individual authority in the workplace; their enduring family and interlocking social networks covering both industrial and finance capital; and their ability to collectively exercise influence over the state through the employers’ associations. The first ingredient continues to serve them well, aided by the near-complete route of the trade unions in small and medium-sized firms, while the second still serves more than adequately, despite the adaptation to financialisation we traced in the last chapter. Here we focus on the contribution to the continued accumulation of income, wealth and power by France’s ruling elite of the third ingredient, employers’ organisations.

Keywords: Trade Union; Pension Fund; Industrial Relation; Unemployment Insurance; Social Dialogue (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9781403990044_8

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