L’échec de la « démocratie industrielle » aux États-Unis: retour sur les « mirages » de l’« Industrial Pluralism »

Bernard Baudry () and Herve Charmettant ()
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Bernard Baudry: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Herve Charmettant: CREG - Centre de recherche en économie de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: The decline of "organized" firms in the USA ruins the hope of balancing intra-company powers through the collective negotiation between employers and trade unions, this hope the Wagner Act opened and which was in the core of the Industrial Pluralism. At this time when corporate agreements are developing in France, it is important to review the reasons for this disappointed hope in order to draw lessons from them. We show that the shifting of the negotiation towards a purely contractual scope bound its performances to a battle of wills progressively unfavorable to trade unionism. The next finding from our analysis is the fact that the preservation of the exclusive power of the management over the business strategy could just lead to the failure of this way of operating.

Keywords: industrial democracy; industrial pluralism; labor law; trade unionism; Wagner act; démocratie industrielle; droit collectif du travail; loi Wagner; pluralisme industriel; syndicalisme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Published in Droit et Société : Revue internationale de théorie du droit et de sociologie juridique, 2020, 2020/1 (104), pp.165-187. ⟨10.3917/drs1.104.0165⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/drs1.104.0165

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