After the Auroux laws: employers, industrial relations and the Right in France

In: West European politics, Band 11, Heft Jan 88

Abstract

Explores the roots of industrial relations policy under the French Fifth Republic. Challenged by radical unions, employers and the right formulated a common consensus-minded response. If employers came to accept company bargaining and workplace expression under the Auroux Laws, it was because under depressive market conditions they were able to dominate the new institutions. Despite commitment to deregulation Chirac has preserved the laws and urged the cooperation of unions and management to achieve greater labour market flexibility. (Abstract amended)