RECODIFYING THE JOB RELATION

This article examines the deep changes which have been observed in Fre nch and Quebec firms as regards job relation regulation. A different e merging social compromise can be distinguished from the one interioriz ed by the collective actors since the Second World War. Whereas this c ompromise, the Fordist compromise, depended on a correspondence betwee n the type of job and the salary, the latter - which does not yet have either the coherence nor the institutional support of the former - ha s developed around a correspondence between productivity and the job. Therefore, the notion of productive efficiency becomes a stake in soci al regulation, leading to more advanced forms of related regulation.