“The World is Changing, Let’s Change Our Trade Unionism”

Abstract

Between 1973 and the late 1980s, the way the CFDT looked at the crisis changed dramatically. From an analysis in terms of a radical criticism of capitalism and productivism, inherited from 1968, it moved progressively towards an analysis of the technological, economic and cultural mutations at work. Another world was taking shape to which trade unionism had to adapt or else disappear. Self-management and socialism as solutions to the crisis were no longer on the agenda, nor was the mere defense of the benefits of prosperity. It was a question of inventing new forms of social compromises. More than by the political situation, the recentering of the CFDT was explained by its interpretation of the crisis.

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