A query about France

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Nov 11 15:02:33 PST 2002


andie nachgeborenen wrote:


>Why is French union density so low, and why does it
>have a social democratic welfare state despite that,
>which, if we had it, would make us think thatthe
>revolution was over and we'd won? jks

I think French unions had/have low membership, but negotiate on behalf of a much larger share of the workforce than accounted for by their membership. Or used to.

Doug



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