THE TRANSFORMATION OF FRENCH INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS - GLORIFICATION OF THE ENTERPRISE AND DISAFFECTION ON THE STREETS

This article examines the key debates and intellectual currents in Fre nch industrial relations in the past decade. The focus of attention ha s shifted from working conditions, relations between social groups, ma crosocial processes and conflict to the labour market, the company and social and technological innovation. Both economists and industrial s ociologists now see the firm as the central object of their research, a change of focus which has required innovations in theory and in meth odology. But dramatic events since 1995 show that the national level r etains its importance.