MAIN LABOR CHANGES IN FRENCH CAR INDUSTRY

Abstract

Successive reorganization of production of work in the French car industry has led to a particular productive matrix. This productive matrix is very effective and has made gains of between 5 and 12% per year possible. The components of the matrix are tight flow, teamwork and competencies model and integration of production in the outspread firm. The matrix can be understood as a subsection of the post-Fordist model of capital accumulation. The question is put whether this matrix can overcome the contradictions between workers and employers and keep the French car manufacturers in profit over the long term.

Citation

Durand, J.-P. (2004), "MAIN LABOR CHANGES IN FRENCH CAR INDUSTRY", Beukema, L. and Hector Carrillo, J. (Ed.) Globalism/Localism at Work (Research in the Sociology of Work, Vol. 13), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-2833(04)13003-3