Syndicalisme chrétien et démocratisation de l’entreprise en Belgique

The paper uses a historical perspective to question the dialectic between law and labour, highlighting the crucial role that law has played in the self-management union movement that arose during the 1960s and 1970s. More specifically, it explains how and why Belgium’s CSC Confederation of Christian...

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Main Author: Quentin Jouan
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: La Nouvelle Revue du Travail 2015-10-01
Series:La Nouvelle Revue du Travail
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/nrt/2344
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description The paper uses a historical perspective to question the dialectic between law and labour, highlighting the crucial role that law has played in the self-management union movement that arose during the 1960s and 1970s. More specifically, it explains how and why Belgium’s CSC Confederation of Christian Trade Unions considered it so important to devise legal standards for governing the dissemination of economic and financial information in works councils, a stage they viewed as a prerequisite to the establishment of true workplace democracy. Union records are scrutinised to recount CSC’s demands and achievements in the three areas comprising economic and financial information: information per se; accounting standards; and company audits. These topics may seem colourless and highly technical but they mask a deep social debate, namely to what extent employees participate in their companies’ lives. Alongside of this, the article also attests to the power of tools such as quantified information.
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Syndicalisme chrétien et démocratisation de l’entreprise en Belgique
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works council
economic and financial information
self-management
unionism
company
title Syndicalisme chrétien et démocratisation de l’entreprise en Belgique
title_full Syndicalisme chrétien et démocratisation de l’entreprise en Belgique
title_fullStr Syndicalisme chrétien et démocratisation de l’entreprise en Belgique
title_full_unstemmed Syndicalisme chrétien et démocratisation de l’entreprise en Belgique
title_short Syndicalisme chrétien et démocratisation de l’entreprise en Belgique
title_sort syndicalisme chretien et democratisation de l entreprise en belgique
topic CSC Belgian Confederation of Christian Trade Unions
works council
economic and financial information
self-management
unionism
company
url http://journals.openedition.org/nrt/2344
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