Trade-unionism and the new productive model

Authors
Citation
Jp. Durand, Trade-unionism and the new productive model, PENSEE, (319), 1999, pp. 85-96
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
General
Journal title
PENSEE
ISSN journal
00314773 → ACNP
Issue
319
Year of publication
1999
Pages
85 - 96
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-4773(199907/09):319<85:TATNPM>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
As the model of goods and services production changes, so trade unionism is finding it difficult to regain the position it had in the Fordist producti on system: pay claims, improvement in working conditions and the formation of professional entities. Far from calling into question the workings of tr ade union organisations, the author shows how in the new productive model m anagerial strategies greatly reduce the role of trade unions by making them seem superfluous to most employees, particularly in the new sectors of act ivity. Trade unionism must therefore find a new lease of life by inventing new fun ctions and above all by "professionalising" its militants in order to respo nd to the increasing professionalisation of the management technicians, par ticularly as regards communication and management of wage relations.