Describes the French system of social relations and the trend toward weaker government intervention and stronger employer and labor roles. (AM)

Demonstrates how documentation, such as photographs, articles, and comic strips, of an actual labor strike in France, can be used as a point of departure for a lesson on industrial relations in France. (AM)

This series of articles cites a variety of sources and synthesizes a number of studies on the working conditions and the welfare of workers from several countries. (SSH)

The French worker certification system is focusing on efforts to design a scheme for the accreditation of work-based learning. If implemented, the scheme would be directed by a business-government-worker partnership, recognized and accepted by different occupations, and accessible to all employees regardless of the way their qualifications were…