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Employment Relations in France

Evolution and Innovation

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Authors:
  1. Alan Jenkins

    1. Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, ESSEC, Cergy-Pontoise, France

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Part of the book series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry (SSWI)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: The French “Exception”

    Pages 1-13

  3. The “Reform of Work ”and the Evolution of Participative Management in France

    Pages 15-41

  4. A Decade of Technological Moderization: Negotiation and Organizational Change During the 1980s

    Pages 43-80

  5. Toward Quality and Process Redesign: The ‘Lean’ Revolution in French Industry

    Pages 81-107

  6. Decentralized Bargaining and the Spread of “Individualization” in Employee Appraisal and Remuneration

    Pages 109-130

  7. Employment Crisis, Restructuring, and “Downsizing”

    Pages 131-157

  8. The Impact of New Flexibilities on Working Time and Contracts

    Pages 159-186

  9. Conclusion: Crisis, Conflict, and Reform in French Work and Society

    Pages 187-209

  10. Conclusion: Crisis, Conflict, and Reform in French Work and Society

    Pages 187-209

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 211-238
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About this book

Thisbook is the fruit of a number of years of assimilating another culture and learning about the evolution of its institutions, altogether an incr- iblyrich andrewarding experience. Ihopetopassonto the reader some of that richness in the belief that, even in a “globalizing” context, learning about other nations and cultures is more and more necessary. The reasons andvalues behind this belief are perhaps evident,but I amconvincedthat they bear repeating here. To begin with, the hasty generalizations that often liebehind the cynicism—and ultimately the violence—of ethnocentrism and xe- phobia are still being aired today and still need to be fought, even in “unified and advanced” regions of the world like Europe and the United States. The historical and social sciences disciplines need to be solicited constantly in this combat, even though they themselves are terrains of controversy and contestation. I personally have not lost faith in their “progressive” potential and character. Second, my belief is that only through this process of appeal to these disciplines and their findings can we resist a dangerous contemporary slide into simplisticand sensation- ist pictures of the world—viewpoints often associated with an implicit assumption that social and economic change are linear processes, so- how unfolding according to the same neat “logic” wherever they are at work.

Reviews

`Jenkins fills a large gap in international literature on France, and does so in a work that is clearly structured and highly readable.'
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 55:2
`Its main quality is its willingness to respect the complexity of this topic and the country's history. This Anglo-Saxon view of labor relations in France- and more generally of French society- provides even French sociologists with distance and fresh analysis of their country's reactions to globalization.'
Contemporary Sociology 31,2

Authors and Affiliations

  • Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, ESSEC, Cergy-Pontoise, France

    Alan Jenkins

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Employment Relations in France

  • Book Subtitle: Evolution and Innovation

  • Authors: Alan Jenkins

  • Series Title: Springer Studies in Work and Industry

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b107714

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46333-4Published: 30 November 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7351-4Published: 23 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47187-2Published: 18 April 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 240

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Management, Human Resource Management, Labor Economics

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