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 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 a... Mehr ...