Union Tradition, Institutionalization Dynamic and Industrial Democracy in France and Germany after

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The concept of industrial democracy is both old and generic. As such, it allows the comparative questions in an unique arrangements and ideas that have emerged in national and historical contexts. The notion of 'industrial relations' in France and 'industrial relations' in Germany are good examples. Moreover, the concept of industrial democracy opens a point of contact between 'the principles and procedures of political democracy and the industrial sphere', and introduces the key issue of this symposium celebrating the centenary of the Charter of Amiens. Are there items and specific modalities of deployment of industrial democracy, centered in the union and its activities?

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[...] The political union is to include the co-determination in a planned and integrated management of the company. An Economic and Social Council - State, social partners and civil society - would support social policies, but also incomes policy, articulated in the management of macroeconomic policy of the State, in coordination with the policies and investments in and by private companies (Klone, Reese p.265). Apart from the social movement of the CDU, the full version of the draft trade union does not tempt many people to the right. [...]

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[...] The political mediation attempts to renew social relationships lead to opposite results in France and Germany. The establishment of industrial democracy in the trajectories of crisis partly explains this opposition. In France, the democratization of enterprise unions remains conditional on political change. Accordingly, given the initiatives of government policies regarding participation in the management of the company, they are confined in a claim to power to influence representative bodies without the concrete modalities of this power are not really explained. [...]

[...] If the CGT launched in the wake of the Communist Party in the battle of production, encourages the formation of these bodies in the dynamics of the promulgation of the 1946 Act, from 1947 the rise in strikes and changing strategy of the Communist Party in the Cold War changed all that. The SGC relay while fighting the Communist Party against imperialism américain4. FO without being hostile to the EC strives primarily to defend the prerogatives of the union in the company against the elected representatives of employees. [...]

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