The Welfare Workforce: Trade Unions and Mental Health Care in France

L'axe Politiques de Santé du LIEPP a la plaisir de vous inviter au séminaire : 

The Welfare Workforce: Trade Unions and Mental Health Care in France

Mardi 9 juin. 14h-16h00.

Lieu : Salle 102. Sciences Po. 56, rue des Saint Pères (accès par le 27, rue saint Guillaume), 75007 Paris. 

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Intervenant : 

Isabel M. Perera (Université Cornell)

Présentation : 

Why would the government provide health and social services to those who cannot demand them? Absent powerful clients, I find, the maintenance and expansion of such services can depend on the political organization of those who work for the welfare state: the “welfare workforce.” A chapter from a forthcoming book project demonstrates how and when in late twentieth century France, welfare workers successfully advocated for expansions to the public mental health care system -- despite the powerful economic and ideological pressures to the contrary. Within-case process analysis, supported by extensive archival material, documents how a durable coalition of public sector workers and their managers (a distinct source of political influence) produced the expansive French public mental health system that remains in place today.