Les entreprises publiques ne porteront pas l'uniforme social
By: FAVARD, Émile
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ArticlePublisher: Paris : IIAP, oct./déc. 1981Revue Française D'Administration Publique 20, p. 87-94Abstract: The recent nationalizations will not wear the tricolour social uniform, for the simple reason that there is none such a thing. Even CDF Chimie, though born within, resembles its fastcolour nationalized parent "Charbonnages de France" much less than its outside "private" competitor Rhône-Poulenc Industries.Abstract: It is hence high time to discard whatever idyllic or apocalyptic visions one may have about the "State-boss", neither a father X-mas nor an ogre, but rather an employer among others, i.e. sensitive to the economic and political environment. The strinfencies of - particularly international - competition have largely masked the social specificity of the nationals. And the pre-May'81 liberalism had done its best to spur the natural propensity of living cells to divesify. In short, the France taken over by F. Mitterand is mainly and paradoxically characterized by disparities among the nationals and parities among these and their private competitors
The recent nationalizations will not wear the tricolour social uniform, for the simple reason that there is none such a thing. Even CDF Chimie, though born within, resembles its fastcolour nationalized parent "Charbonnages de France" much less than its outside "private" competitor Rhône-Poulenc Industries.
It is hence high time to discard whatever idyllic or apocalyptic visions one may have about the "State-boss", neither a father X-mas nor an ogre, but rather an employer among others, i.e. sensitive to the economic and political environment. The strinfencies of - particularly international - competition have largely masked the social specificity of the nationals. And the pre-May'81 liberalism had done its best to spur the natural propensity of living cells to divesify. In short, the France taken over by F. Mitterand is mainly and paradoxically characterized by disparities among the nationals and parities among these and their private competitors
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