Employment Relations in France Evolution and Innovation
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PLENUM STUDIES IN WORK AND INDUSTRY Series Editors: Ivar Berg, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Arne L. Kalleberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina WORK AND INDUSTRY Structures, Markets, and Processes Arne L. Kalleberg and Ivar Berg Current Volumes in the Series:
EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN FRANCE Evolution and Innovation Alan Jenkins THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP Causes and Consequences of Modern Personnel Administration William P. Bridges and Wayne J. Villemez ENDING A CAREER IN THE AUTO INDUSTRY “30 and Out” Melissa A. Hardy, Lawrence Hazelrigg, and Jill Quadagno LABOR AND POLITICS IN THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE Vern K. Baxter NEGRO BUSINESS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION Their Present and Prospective Development Joseph A. Pierce Introduction by John Sibley Butler THE OPERATION OF INTERNAL LABOR MARKETS Staffing Practices and Vacancy Claims Lawrence T. Pinfield SEGMENTED LABOR, FRACTURED POLITICS Labor Politics in American Life William Form THE SOCIAL AND SPATIAL ECOLOGY OF WORK The Case of a Survey Research Organization Rita Gorawara-Bhat STRESS AND DISTRESS AMONG THE UNEMPLOYED Hard Times and Vulnerable People Clifford L. Broman, V. Lee Hamilton, and William S . Hoffman WHEN STRIKES MAKE SENSE-AND WHY Lessons from Third Republic French Coal Miners Samuel Cohn
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Employment Relations in France Evolution and Innovation
Alan Jenkins Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, ESSEC Cergy-Pontoise, France
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Preface
This book is the fruit of a number of years of assimilating another culture and learning about the evolution of its institutions, altogether an incredibly rich and rewarding experience. I hope to pass on to 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 and values behind this belief are perhaps evident, but I am convinced that they bear repeating here. To begin with, the hasty generalizations that often lie behind the cynicism—and ultimately the violence—of ethnocentrism and xenophobia are still being aired today and still need to be fought, even in “unif
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