(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #228 - Read Garrouste Laurent, Michel Husson, Claude Jacquin Henri Wilno: Delete redundancies (fr)

The collective work written by economists, a lawyer and an expert on EC has appeal for 
extension of several processes of the economy, despite some legislative and case law 
developments in this area since its issue in 2006. If it is regrettable that a book about 
work and layoffs was not written by the first question, namely union employees or 
unemployed-is-s, it remains that the finding of globalized economy and leads to permanent 
restructuring proposals and union and political tracks against layoffs. Decrypting and 
deconstructing the dominant pattern of thought, it reminds both that employees do not have 
to pay for choosing a system that employs them and the opportunity to dent a number of 
claims against reformist scholars like layoffs, carried by the movement of Licenci'elles 
today.

No need to have important concepts in economics to delve into reading even if some 
passages remain abstract. Recalling that labor law is both the result of a power struggle 
between social classes and technical serving the interests of employers or employees, are, 
it is ambivalent following situations, delete redundancies can out of the myth of law work 
offline social realities. Along pamphlet against redundancies, shared between hard facts 
and analysis of the general situation also allows requestionner the private law concept of 
means of production, redistribution of wealth and the logic of the capitalist system 
without the back fully involved.

More for trade unionists and "experts", the book contains many references to the labor 
law, the Constitution, or even the processes of rehabilitation in a collective redundancy 
procedure, but unfortunately does not allow for finding proposals which are employee-could 
greatly mobilize. Surprisingly, the criticism of the non-economic aspects of layoffs may 
be surprised by the fervor of the authors on the frontline of all the layoffs and also 
suggest a critical view of some interesting productions to the industrial conversion 
without too explain who could take decisions and how.

The book has the merit of helping to understand, analyze and control proponents of the 
capitalist system, both in the legal economy. Sounding strong and stumbling about modesty 
personified by many not to fight against the dismissal of all kinds load, the authors have 
unfortunately stopped on the way, so much of the road was made. Claims, or at least the 
solutions proposed in the book, although transient for us, may seem like a final solution 
for others.

RoberK (AL Montreuil)

? Garrouste Laurent, Michel Husson, Claude Jacquin, Henri Wilno, delete redundancies , 
Syllepse, 2006, 160 p., 8 euros.