2010
DOI: 10.1177/0160449x10379644
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Social Movement and Unionism in France: A Case for Revitalization?

Abstract: From the mid-1990s onwards, France has been rocked by ongoing social protests. This article considers whether and how these protests provide a strategic context for the “revitalization” of labor organizations. After providing insights into the French industrial relations system, particular attention is given to three cases: the organizing of unemployed and migrant workers, the alter-globalization movement, and recently established independent trade union Solidaires, Unitaires et Démocratiques, which epitomize … Show more

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“…The relative failure of the new social democracy in office in the early 1990s to deliver successfully an alternative project in the face of pressures arising from globalization produced a shared enthusiasm for the project of a 'social Europe'. This project has also stalled, however, with the consequence that the dominant union orientation towards 'cosmopolitan social democracy' has opened up space on the left which the radicals in SUD have attempted to exploit (Upchurch et al, 2009;Parsons, 2015;Le Queux and Sainsaulieu, 2010).…”
Section: The Crisis Of (Social Democratic) Trade Unionism In France Amentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The relative failure of the new social democracy in office in the early 1990s to deliver successfully an alternative project in the face of pressures arising from globalization produced a shared enthusiasm for the project of a 'social Europe'. This project has also stalled, however, with the consequence that the dominant union orientation towards 'cosmopolitan social democracy' has opened up space on the left which the radicals in SUD have attempted to exploit (Upchurch et al, 2009;Parsons, 2015;Le Queux and Sainsaulieu, 2010).…”
Section: The Crisis Of (Social Democratic) Trade Unionism In France Amentioning
confidence: 99%
“…www.erudit.org introduction La configuration syndicale française est souvent perçue comme singulière en raison de sa forte fragmentation (huit confédérations et unions existent aujourd'hui au plan national), la faiblesse du taux de syndicalisation (7 à 8% de la population active), mais aussi la récurrence des grands mouvements sociaux (Pernot, 2010 : 27-68 ;Pernot, 2012) comme, à l'automne 1995, contre un énième plan de réforme de la Sécurité sociale ou, à l'automne 2010, contre la réforme du système de retraites (Béroud, Yon, 2012). Le maintien d'un courant syndical tourné vers la lutte et l'opposition aux politiques néo-libérales a ainsi conduit certains chercheurs à s'interroger, au cours des années 1990-2000, sur l'apparition de nouveaux acteurs, les syndicats SUD (Solidaires, Unitaires et Démo-cratiques), incarnant, à l'instar des dynamiques existantes dans d'autres pays, à la fois un syndicalisme « radical », très ancré sur le lieu de travail (Darlington, 2013), et une forme de « syndicalisme de mouvement social », en lien avec d'autres acteurs contestataires (Waterman, 1993 ;Le Queux, Sainsaulieu, 2010).…”
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“…These include partnership with employers, renewed focus on organising and union mergers (Heery et al ., ); the adjustment of interunion and intraunion relationships (Fairbrother, ); the development of new organisational forms (Verma and Kochan, : 14); community unionism (Stewart et al ., : 3); forms of social movement unionism (e.g. Le Queux and Sainsaulieu, ); and the adoption of workplace learning initiatives (McIlroy, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%