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French trade-unions relations at the light of international commitments, 1948-1978

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In 1948, the tripartition of french trade-unionism finds his international foundation again : the CGT is affiliated to the WFTU, the CFTC to the ICCTU and FO to the ICFTU. This configuration remains stable during three decades. From the Cold war to the Detente, the CGT fits into the communist network, the CFTC into the Christian-democrat network and FO into the social-democrat network. This enrolment in the logic of block contributes to the national division ; in the same time, the position of french confederations in their international organization takes part in the installation of international tripartition. From the mid 1960's, geopolitical evolutions transform the morphology of transnational networks, what find expression in weakening of international organisation's power. The relations between french trade-unions, marked by unity CGT-CFDT from 1966, are over-determined by political stakes. The union's tripartition continues at national and international level, nevertheless, analysis of transnational networks and prosopographic method make clear changing of alliances and ideological evolutions.