26 Although essential, the process by which these decrees were drawn up has received little attention.55 While the question of continuity with the hierarchies of the Collective Agreements of the Popular Front has been raised56, the wages and skills attributed to the female workforce have not been studied. For women, the drafting of the Parodi Croizat decrees is a more important moment than the negotiations of the Popular Front. Laure Machu, ” Gender, bargaining agreements and skills in french industry in the first half of the twentieth century “, Clio [online], 38 | 2013, online since September 15, 2014, connection on December 05, 2020. URL: journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/286; DOI: doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.286 This chapter provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of collective bargaining systems and rules of worker participation in OECD countries. Despite the decline in union density and collective bargaining coverage over the past 40 years, collective bargaining remains an important institution in the labour market. However, understanding of this key institution is limited by the fact that collective bargaining systems are often described by crude and oversimplified indicators in the literature. This chapter describes in more detail the characteristics of collective bargaining systems, which are particularly important for labour market outcomes. reference to the collective agreement, if applicable; and 23 Collective Agreement (CA) of the wholesale trade of clothing of Lille, L`Ouvrier de l`habillement, June 1919. 15The qualification scales were determined by sex: on the one hand, they excluded women from occupations defined as qualified; On the other hand, they tended to deny that skills were involved in the jobs that women were allowed to do. In accordance with the decisions of the First World War, the collective agreement of the Parisian metallurgical industry attributed two meanings to the notion of qualification. The “professional workers” worked in occupations in which the apprenticeship “may lead to the award of a CAP [certificate of professional aptitude or certificate of vocational training]”. In contrast, skilled workers [skilled workers or CSs] engaged in activities that “did not require knowledge of an activity in which apprenticeship may lead to the award of a CAP”29 In one case, the classification was defined by the certificate.
In the other, it was set by mail properties. Indeed, the OS was not defined by the absence of training, but by its place in the division of labor, as shown by the distinction between the positions of machines “OS” and “INSTALLATION AND MISCELLANEOUS” – the former are more remunerated. . . .