The Democratic Renewal of French Trade Unionism: an Impossible Challange?
Abstract
This article is less of a review of the above work than an analysis and discussion of some of its key arguments. Friedman’s book has two salient characteristics. First, the author has chosen not to restrict himself to a purely comparative approach to trade union decline: instead of examining the contrasting ways in which this phenomenon has played out in a number of countries, he treats it as a transnational occurrence which transcends national contexts