Increasing use of 'market' concepts in negotiations and contextualising factors

Jens Thoemmes (1)

1 CERTOP - Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir

This chapter is based on a series of research projects on the negotiation of working time relating to company-level agreements in France (and in other European countries) from the early 1990s. Collective bargaining between employers and trade unions has profoundly changed the working conditions of companies. We propose to trace this change from what we have achieved over fifteen years of research in this field. Our aim is to deepen the theory of negotiation with particular respect to the role collective bargaining on working time plays in organizational structuring. Collective bargaining in French companies is framed by legislation. We therefore address the whole process of regulation of working time, which combines the activities of trade unions, employers, and the State.

Mots clés: markets; collective bargaining

Domaines: Sociologie

Jens Thoemmes. Increasing use of 'market' concepts in negotiations and contextualising factors. Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys, Béatrice Appay. Globalization and Precarious Forms of Production and Employment: Challenges for Workers and Unions, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.147-163, 2010, 9781848445932. ⟨hal-00942020v2⟩