{"id":36481,"date":"2005-01-01T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/desindustrialisation-ou-modernisation\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T23:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T22:56:57","slug":"desindustrialisation-ou-modernisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/desindustrialisation-ou-modernisation\/","title":{"rendered":"De-industrializing or Modernizing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='post-container'><p>According to Michel Godet, the French are wrongly obsessed with the relocation of manufacturing activities to other countries. He argues instead that it is &#8220;less a case of de-industrializing than of shifts in manufacturing practices and the internationalization of industrial activities&#8221;, and indeed these changes have a beneficial impact on employment.<br \/>\nThat manufacturing productivity should rise is a good thing as long as there is service sector growth, including in services for firms that will contribute to the needed expansion of the tertiary sector of the French economy.<br \/>\nThe real problem of the French economy and society lies not in globalization or in de-industrialization. Rather, it arises from the fact that, rather than encouraging initiative, every effort is made to keep uncompetitive firms in business artificially.<br \/>\nWhat we should do, says Michel Godet, is first of all help successful firms to expand and to activate dormant projects. We should abandon the myth of large-scale plans and instead stimulate the creation of activities which would, in turn, create jobs. We should stop dreaming of a knowledge economy fuelled by major programmes for research and development, and create a new collective pattern of growth based on a network of skills, individuals and organizations. They should stop attacking each other and work together to create a new collective dynamism.<br \/>\nIn short, Godet concludes, we should stop looking for a foreign scapegoat for France&#8217;s problems and also stop hoping for salvation from abroad. The solutions lie above all in mobilizing people and therefore in better management &#8211; this alone could lift the country out of its threatened stagnation.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Michel Godet, the French are wrongly obsessed with the relocation of manufacturing activities to other countries. He argues instead that it is &#8220;less a case of de-industrializing than of shifts in manufacturing practices and the internationalization of industrial activities&#8221;, and indeed these changes have a beneficial impact on employment. That manufacturing productivity should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/desindustrialisation-ou-modernisation\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1324],"tags":[133],"keyword":[863,859,949,845],"class_list":["post-36481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-revue-futuribles","tag-economie-et-emploi-en","keyword-entreprises-en","keyword-france-en","keyword-industrie-en","keyword-commerce-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52158,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36481\/revisions\/52158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36481"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuribles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=36481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}