Genesis of a field of research on industrial relations in France

The genesis of a french academic research field dedicated to industrial relations dates to the early 1970s. This article reports on the main stages that marked out the construction of such a field. It focuses mainly on the constitution and dynamics of the Coordinated Research Group (Greco) no 41 "Industrial Relations, Negotiations and Conflicts" of the National Center for Scientific Research, which later became a Research Group (GDR). The angle of attack thus gives priority to an institutional arrangement that has gone beyond the walls of university departments and research laboratories and that has associated multiple disciplines (economics, law, sociology...).