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"Une même question a été posée à une équipe de chercheurs spécialisés dans les relations du travail dans les principales économies post-industrielles de ce début du 21e siècle : comment a évolué la régulation sociale dans les entreprises depuis une trentaine d'années ?
Leurs réponses montrent que les restructurations économiques, l'européanisation et la mondialisation ont conduit à d'importants changements, rarement volontaires, dans les relations entre les « partenaires sociaux » : organisations syndicales et patronales, sans oublier l'État, qui joue souvent un rôle d'arbitre. Ainsi, les modèles nationaux hérités du 20e siècle ont été remis en cause. Les particularismes se sont effacés pour laisser place à des cadres plus fragiles et plus fluctuants.
Ce livre dresse un état des lieux précis des principaux changements qui ont affecté les syndicats et le dialogue social dans les entreprises en Europe et Amérique du Nord. Il permet de dépasser les idées reçues concernant les modèles anglo-saxon, scandinave, rhénan et latin. "

"The paper compares trends and case studies of individual and collective employment conflicts in France and the UK. Its focus is on the extent to which conciliation, mediation and mediation are used within the two different industrial relations systems. In both, third-party intervention is associated with the legitimacy conveyed by the involvement of both employers and trade unions, or by the presence of an impartial judge. The research finds extensive use of alternative dispute resolution is taking place in both countries, with dispute resolution taking place commonly in the justice system in France, while in the UK there is extensive use made of the arms-length independent government agency, Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service. However, the research concludes that the most effective third-party interventions take place when they are combined with mobilisation, rather than merely being the sole form of dispute resolution."

"Trade unionism in western Europe is facing the growing challenge of the relocation of work to other parts of the world. This article focuses on the major banking trade unions in France and the UK. It discusses the unions' responses to globalisation in a sector where information technology has exposed firms to intense competitive pressures and has encouraged not just relocation but also business mergers and concentration combined with widespread outsourcing. The authors find that there is often a tension between the day-to-day defence of the workers and broader trade union aspirations to develop alternatives to the arbitrariness of an economic system where labour power is reduced to a commodity to be bought and sold. The article concludes that the dual purposes of union activity, the defence and improvement of workers' immediate working conditions, and the projection of alternative people-friendly forms of social and economic organisation, are being made more difficult by globalisation. "

"Works councils have been an important vehicle of collective representation in most Western European countries. They have facilitated trade union involvement in employment relations at enterprise level, even when membership levels are relatively low. However, there have been recent doubts about the resilience of the institution, particularly given its lower coverage in expanding areas of employment such as private services and small firms. This article presents qualitative data on the `start-up' of works councils in France, Germany and Spain, with an emphasis on these sectors. The extension of works councils to difficult sectors depends on establishing clarity about their role, strengthening legislative support, deepening the engagement of external trade unions in their development and ensuring that enterprise actors have realistic expectations."

"How has foreign investment helped transform the ten former-Communist members of the European Union? What role have multinational corporations based in France, Germany and the US played in changing work and employment relations? What impact have the European Social Model and European Works Councils had? What is happening now to these economies in face of the global economic crisis? Is foreign direct investment a new colonialism or a real boost to the region?

This books expert contributions offer major insights into the ways in which multinational corporations are helping to transform Central and Eastern Europe. Based on original fieldwork into the behaviours of French, German and American corporations, the evidence of a partial transfer of employment relations models comes from service sector multinationals like Accor, Carrefour and Société Générale as well as those in the automobile industry like Volkswagen and Renault and in food processing like Danone and Bongrain. "

"Comment analyser aujourd'hui les transformations du mouvement syndical ? Si la question n'est pas nouvelle, force est de constater que la plupart des réponses qui lui ont été apportées jusqu'ici semblent être régulièrement contredites par les rebondissements de l'actualité. Cet ouvrage invite donc le lecteur à réexaminer attentivement les poncifs qui aliment, depuis une vingtaine d'années, les analyses de la crise du syndicalisme. «Institutionnalisation», «montée des corporatismes», «utilitarisme», «absence de projet mobilisateur». Autant de diagnostics devenus familiers, mais dont le contenu apparaît singulièrement restrictif, voire parfois décalé, lorsqu'il s'agit d'appréhender les transformations à l'oeuvre. Nourrie par les résultats d'une enquête sociologique menée au coeur des entreprises d'un bassin industriel de la région parisienne, l'analyse proposée ici donne à voir les efforts déployés par les équipes militantes pour se saisir des enjeux du futur, tout en prolongeant la tradition de lutte et d'indépendance qui a marqué jusqu'ici leur action."