FRENCH TRADE UNIONS FACE THE 1980s: THE CGT AND CFDT IN THE STRATEGIC CONFLICTS AND ECONOMIC CRISIS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE.
In: Political Power & Social Theory, Jg. 3 (1982), S. 53-75
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The article presents information on economic various developments in France. It is evident that the economic situation of the 1980s will be very different from that faced in the early 1970s. The "postwar boom" seems to be over. A new international economic order is emerging, which involves a significant reshuffling of economic cards between national economies in the advanced capitalist world, newly industrializing countries, and raw material producers. Trade unions cannot escape such reorientation. Yet, of all important French economic actors, trade unions seem most mired in old habits, specifically in their national focus and traditional perceptions of reality. Once free of the final paroxysm of colonial warfare in Algeria in 1962, the Gaullist regime set its sights on the economic modernization of France. Gaullist modernization was based on a shrewd understanding of the unfolding of events in international capitalism. The long postwar hegemony of the U.S. was, for the first time, challengeable. Specific capitalist states like France, by intelligent growth and investment strategies, would be able to carve out a niche for themselves in the newly competitive international capitalist markets that appeared on the horizon.
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FRENCH TRADE UNIONS FACE THE 1980s: THE CGT AND CFDT IN THE STRATEGIC CONFLICTS AND ECONOMIC CRISIS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Ross, George |
Zeitschrift: | Political Power & Social Theory, Jg. 3 (1982), S. 53-75 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1982 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0198-8719 (print) |
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