Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...

This article investigates the transformations of the French unionism and of the French system of industrial relations over the last years and their probable future. It shows: an evolution from a militant unionism to a professionalized trade unionist system; the decline of collective actions; the...

Des grandes grèves du secteur minier sud-africain violemment réprimées dans le régime postapartheid (2012), à l'irruption du conflit Whirpool d'Amiens dans la campagne présidentielle française (2017), en passant par les protestations dans les régions phosphatières sous le régime de Ben...

Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were...