What is the nature and purpose of Family Learning? The discourses relating to how a strong home-school relationship affects attitudes to Lifelong Learning and the impact of paternal involvement in young children's development have been well researched and document clear links and positive, enduring benefits for families and professionals. In spite, or perhaps because of this focus, the means by which these connections are achieved and maintained remains less well explored. The issues that need addressing now are more tangible challenges, such as: what does good practice look like, who decides which notions are consolidated, when and why? Coupled with questions such as how do we get more fathers more involved and what will enable these relationships to flourish, this research reports on the initial findings from a small-scale exploratory inquiry, conducted as part of a professional doctorate, which considers a possible approach to these issues. It is an illuminative case study, located within an interpretive research paradigm, based on ontological assumptions of empowerment and emancipation for participants. A sociocultural epistemology informs and frames the work. The study sets out to explore the value and potential of Family Learning as a means of focused intervention in response to the questions raised, whilst also examining and increasing awareness of the issues involved, as seen by participants, to facilitate the expression of paternal agency and voice within the research process. The data collection, conducted over a period of six months, focuses on an existing Fathers’ Group, as they participate in a Family Learning project. It seeks to establish the nature and purpose of this type of provision, by clarifying the processes, outcomes and determinants of involvement through the eyes of the fathers, as they define and ultimately come to terms with their own identity and roles, in relation to their young children's development. The research centres on two workshops supported by several participant-led focus meetings. Two semi-structured staff interviews offer insight into the role that both professional and personal cultural and historical understandings of Family Learning play in the process, whilst the data analysis illuminates and describes the relationships between parents and practitioners, policy and pedagogy. The research observations could be used to inform approaches to both the establishment and the development of individual, personalised family frameworks for Lifelong Learning. The findings may also contribute towards a fresh perspective and offer creative approaches for professionals, in which pedagogical practice is not pre-determined but constantly evolving, on an equal and collaborative basis, between professionals and participants. This study offers a critical examination of grassroots Family Learning in practice. It is firmly embedded within and responsive to the needs of its local community. It aims to provide independent evidence to reinforce and extend the current knowledge base and ultimately, to maintain, strengthen and expand the connections between Family and Lifelong Learning.

Embora o ato de traduzir a interação oral entre duas ou mais pessoas seja algo infinitamente antigo, a interpretação de conferências, como profissão, remonta ao início do Século XX, com as Conferências de Paz realizadas em Paris, ao final da Primeira Guerra Mundial. A profissão se consolida com a criação da Liga das Nações e, posteriormente, da Organização das Nações Unidas e com o aumento do número de congressos e reuniões científicas internacionais, além da criação de diversos organismos internacionais após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. No Brasil, a interpretação desponta como profissão na segunda metade da década de 40 do século passado e vai-se consolidando aos poucos, ao longo das décadas seguintes. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo narrar e analisar criticamente a história da profissão no Brasil, a partir de depoimentos de seus diversos participantes, a saber intérpretes de conferência e formadores de intérpretes. O arsenal teórico que subsidia a coleta e análise das entrevistas parte de pressupostos da História Oral, sem, contudo, se limitar a tal abordagem teórica, inserindo-se na grade área de Estudos da Tradução, utilizando a visão do pesquisador insider proposta por Koskinen (2008). O ecletismo da metodologia abrange, ainda, a análise crítica de elementos da mídia, de correspondências por correio eletrônico e de informações de websites de alguns cursos de formação. A pesquisa inclui os primeiros eventos importantes e a criação da Associação Profissional de Intérpretes de Conferência (APIC), em 1971, em relato de sua idealizadora e primeira presidente, Ulla Schneider e das demais fundadoras vivas. O trabalho, tentando suprir uma lacuna nos Estudos da Interpretação no Brasil e em língua portuguesa como um todo, inclui ainda outras questões contemporâneas pertinentes à profissão, tais como o relacionamento entre intérpretes e desses com agenciadores e organizadores de eventos, além de apresentar uma visão de como a mídia brasileira vê os intérpretes. Inclui também uma panorâmica de grandes eventos internacionais realizados no Brasil, na voz de uma das principais coordenadoras de intérpretes, Simone Troula. Todo um capítulo é dedicado à formação de intérpretes no Brasil, não só em seu aspecto histórico, mas também no que tange à formação hoje em dia, comparando e contrastando os programas existentes no Brasil a seus congêneres internacionais. O trabalho finaliza com uma breve visão de possíveis cenários da profissão, a partir de novos elementos como a interpretação remota, a realização de eventos monolíngues, sobretudo em inglês, e a atuação cada vez maior de agenciadores de intérpretes. Conclui-se o estudo com algumas sugestões para pesquisas futuras em relação à área de estudo abordada. / Although oral translation between people interacting in different languages has existed since times immemorial, conference interpreting as a profession appears in the beginning of the 20th century, with the Paris Peace Conferences, at the end of the First World War. The profession develops at the League of Nations and, later, at the United Nation Organization. It is also fostered by the multiplication of international conferences and technical meetings, as well as the creation of a myriad international organizations, after the Second World War. In Brazil, conference interpreting appears as a profession in the 1940s and slowly grows in the following decades. This research aims at critically narrating the history of this profession in Brazil, from interviews given by its participants, namely conference interpreters and interpreter trainers. Interviews were carried out and analyzed under the light of Oral History methods. This work, however, does not confine itself to the Oral History methodology but rather fits into the field of Translation Studies, relying also on Koskinens (2008) view of the insider researcher. The several sources of data for this study also include samples from the press, e-mail correspondence and information gathered from websites of training institutions. This dissertation deals with the first interpreted events in Brazil and the creation of the Professional Association of Conference Interpreters (APIC), in 1971, from interviews by its main creator and first president, Ulla Schneider, and the other living founders. Trying to bridge a gap in Interpreting Studies in Brazil and in the Portuguese language in general, this work includes other present issues relating to the profession, such as relationships between interpreters and between them and translation agencies and event organizers, as well as a brief analysis of how the Brazilian press sees interpreters. It also includes an overview of some important international conferences held in Brazil through the voice of one of the most important chief interpreters in these events, Simone Troula. A whole chapter is dedicated to interpreter training in Brazil, covering not only its history but other issues pertaining interpreting training these days, comparing and contrasting Brazilian programs with their international counterparts. The work concludes with a brief view of possible future scenarios for the profession, focusing on new elements such as remote interpreting, monolingual conferences, held mostly in English, and the ever-growing role played by translation agencies and professional conference organizers. It closes with some suggestions for further research in interpreting as a field of study.

Schools face a great challenge in recruiting and retaining quality teachers, given the documented importance of, variability in, and difficulty observing and predicting teacher quality. One option schools have is to identify what more effective teachers do and use that information to train less effective teachers to get better. Unfortunately, there is little empirical support for much traditional teacher training, as measured by gains in student test scores. Models of collaborative, team-based learning – such as Professional Learning Communities and Japanese lesson study – have been widely touted, and there is some evidence that they may be effective in certain contexts. Economic theory suggests this could be because of peer monitoring, peer pressure, specialization, knowledge-sharing, or market failure in pre-service training, particularly if learning to teach is primarily experiential. However, not all collaboration is good due to concerns about free-riding and substituting for more productive individual activity, so unbridled enthusiasm for collaborative professional development may need to be tempered. This dissertation examines the effectiveness of a specific form of teacher collaboration in the form of inquiry teams, groups of teachers and administrators jointly engaged in action research projects with the aim of uncovering innovative instructional strategies and sharing effective approaches. It takes advantage of the phase-in of teams, eventually to all teachers in a large, urban school district in the northeastern United States from 2007-2010 to estimate the results of three natural experiments using difference-in-differences and instrumental variables approaches. The effects of teamwork on teacher value-added, teacher retention, and student test scores are small and sensitive to year, specification, and outcome, although results are mostly positive and occasionally statistically significant, suggesting that overall effects are potentially positive but modest at best. Further examination of heterogeneity and four qualitative case studies of teams suggest that small average effects mask considerable differences in team processes, and that under certain conditions, inquiry team work may be far more effective. A cost analysis reveals that, although it is costly to do inquiry work well, given the low-intensity of average treatment and the large number of students affected, the benefits of inquiry work could exceed the costs if the policy were more targeted. Overall, the policy recommendation is to temper unqualified enthusiasm about teacher collaboration, as without appropriate structures and supports it has little measurable effect on the outcomes examined here. As a policy lever, a universal mandate to participate on collaborative inquiry teams is unlikely to be effective or pass a cost-benefit test. Nonetheless, smaller-scale, higher intensity forms of collaboration that allow for more active leadership support and participation may be more promising, and more cost-effective than alternative forms of professional development, particularly for some sub-groups of teachers such as those in their first year of teaching.

After the comparison and contrast of the four schools, it is propounded that in the establishment and developing process of a professional learning community, its core, teachers' collaborative culture, also displays a developmental process from individualism and comfortable collaboration to organizationally induced collegiality and interdependent collegiality. A supportive system is the guarantee of the teachers' collaborative culture; and the key to facilitate the birth of this culture as well as the building of a professional learning community lies on the principals' leadership style which put attention both on the management strategies and the leading strategies. / Based on the result revealed from the questionnaire survey and data of the case studies, it is found that professional learning community, as an introduced concept from the west, has its local significance in primary schools in the three cities of mainland China, supporting the theoretical structure built by the following four professional learning community dimensions---Shared decision making; Shared sense of purpose and focus on student learning; collaborative activity and deprivatized practice; Staff support and cooperation. The features of the abovementioned dimensions also possess their local flavor: degree of the shared decision making is relatively low and the teachers rarely participate in the financial and personnel decision-making, but own more authority within their professional field; secondly, students' exam scores are more emphasized in the aspect of the focus on student learning, but this varies from the schools according to its realization of professional learning community; thirdly, as for collaborative activity and deprivatized practice, collaboration among teaching practice are bolstered by the traditional "teaching research system", nevertheless there is a gap between the system and the actual outcome of the activities; lastly, the uniform teaching research system, to some extent, provides teachers' cooperation with much support, but is overweighed by the collaborative culture among teachers. / Mixed methods are adopted in this research, in which the questionnaires are delivered in three cities (including Shanghai) of mainland China in order to know the features and the realization of professional learning community in primary schools in Shanghai. It is then followed a purposeful sampling on the basis of the data analysis from the questionnaires, and four schools will be chosen out as the cases to probe into the relationship between professional learning community and teacher development. The major methods for the data collection include questionnaire survey, in-depth interview, participant observation and document collection. / The professional learning community being the one side, the teachers' development is interactively on the other, and the key platform for their interaction is teacher development activities. The contents of teacher development activities vary in different schools of different realization of professional learning community, and also diverse in the interaction between professional learning community and teachers' teacher development. Meanwhile, the second round curriculum reform in Shanghai being the common backdrop, it on one hand offers three platforms to the interaction between professional learning community and teacher development, and on the other hand is itself affected by this interaction. Especially under the pressure of "moderate empowerment and high responsibility" in the second round curriculum reform, teachers are supported by professional learning community in terms of empowerment and responsibility, and are also aided to seek for their professional identities, which leads to the achievement of teachers' real proactive professional development. / With the advent of a transitional era, the field of education is likewise undergoing a global reform. However, in retrospect of the educational reforms launched by various countries in the past thirty years, the aspect of class teaching is seldom touched upon. The academia therefore gives increasing emphasis on teachers as well as teachers' communities, and the concept of professional learning community thus comes into being. In the recent years, the studies on professional learning community have been proliferated in the west, and are gradually introduced into our country, but the related empirical studies in China still remain a virgin land. / 宋萑. / Adviser: Lee Chi Kin. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3113. / Thesis (doctoral)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-302). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Song Huan.

The overall aim of this thesis was to evaluate clinical pharmacist interventions with the focus on methods aiming to improve the quality of drug therapy and increase patient safety. Adverse drug events caused by medication errors, suboptimal dosages and inappropriate prescribing are common causes of drug-related morbidity and mortality. Clinical pharmacists integrated in multi-professional health-care teams are increasingly addressing these issues. A randomised controlled trial (RCT) was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of clinical pharmacists’ interventions in reducing morbidity and use of hospital care for patients 80 years or older. The results showed that the intervention group had fewer visits to hospital and that the intervention was cost-effective. In a subsequent study based on the population in the RCT, the appropriateness of prescribing was assessed using three validated tools. The results indicated improved appropriateness of prescribing for the intervention group as a result of the intervention. The tools and the number of drugs at discharge were then tested for validity in terms of causal links between the scores at discharge and hospitalisation. No clear correlations between high scores for the tools or a high number of drugs and increased risk of hospitalisation could be detected. During the inclusion period of the RCT a survey based study was conducted where the perceived value of ward-based clinical pharmacists, from the perspective of hospital-based physicians and nurses as well as from general practitioners (GPs) was evaluated. The respondents were positive to the new collaboration to a high degree and stated increased patient safety and improvements in patients’ drug therapy as the main advantages. In the last study the frequency and severity of prescription and transcription errors, when patients enrolled in the multidose-dispensed medications (MDD) system are discharged from hospital, was investigated. The results showed that errors frequently occur when MDD patients are hospitalised.

This study examined the nature of teacher conflict and conflict management strategies employed by teachers in sixteen selected primary schools in the Pitseng region, Lesotho. The study was informed by the micro-political and organizational theories of Ball (1987), the two-dimensional model of conflict management proposed by Rahim (1983), and the model of oppression conceptualised by Young (2000). The study utilized a mixed methods approach. The sample included 16 schools and 163 teachers. The data collection techniques included a questionnaire survey and semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings revealed that teachers experienced institutional, cultural and personal conflicts within the micro-politics of the school settings. The complexity of teacher conflict becomes evident in the intersection of factors such as educational policy, religion, cultural norms and beliefs, ideologies and social groupings within schools. It is argued that embedded in teacher conflict are forms of oppression and domination and related power struggles. Four cross cutting issues exacerbate teacher conflict in the study schools, and these are: poor communication or lack of dialogue, inadequate conflict management skills, ineffective school leadership, and teacher stress within schools. The study revealed that teachers used strategies that were located mainly in three conflict management domains: integrating, obliging and compromising. Power dynamics within schools, religious and cultural ideologies, norms and beliefs, and lack of support were viewed as barriers to effective conflict management. Lack of support from the school management was cited as a major problem in addressing teacher conflict in these schools. The study has important implications for policy implementation at school and national levels, teacher development and school leadership training. The focus of conflict management training should be on getting teachers to analyse conflict and situations that trigger conflict through a social justice lens. A key aim would be to build socially just and inclusive school cultures located in a rights discourse, and grounded in the principles of participation, accountability, social inclusion, non-discrimination and linkages to human rights standards. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2010.

The purpose of this study was to explore how teacher learning happened informally at the workplace. Another aim was to describe the ways in which informal learning contributes to teacher development. The study also endeavoured to establish if the school supported or hindered informal learning. The method of case study was used to understand how both novice and experienced teachers learn informally in a secondary school. The study examined five teachers’ informal learning experiences in the school by drawing on accounts of the individual teachers’ perceptions and reflections documented in journals, photographs and interviews. The journal entries were used to write narratives which outlined how teachers learnt informally in the workplace. Teachers were asked to take photographs of the places in which they learnt informally. The interviews awarded teachers the opportunity to talk about the photographs they chose to capture. The study found that teachers engage in various forms of informal learning opportunities at school. These opportunities were both planned and unplanned. The research indicated that informal learning is situated. Some of the learning opportunities included being part of a learning community, learning by interacting with colleagues in informal chats and attending meetings. In these instances it was found that teachers learnt with and from others, which is socially. This illustrates collaborative learning in the school. Teachers also engaged in individual learning. It was discovered that the school must provide opportunities for teachers to engage in informal learning. The study considered the various opportunities that existed in the school for teachers to develop and found that such opportunities contributed towards extending teacher knowledge and development. The study found that teachers in the study were willing to take the initiative to seek the learning they thought they required. The study recommends that informal learning be recognised as an authentic form of teacher learning and development in schools. Further, schools must become sites of learning for teachers by creating, encouraging and sustaining learning opportunities. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.

The aim of this research is to understand the views of teachers regarding professionalism and leadership. As a researcher, I also wanted to investigate whether teachers were given opportunities to lead within a professional capacity in their schools and to examine the factors that promote the development of these teacher leaders as professionals as well as those factors that hinder such development. In view of the recent public servants strike in 2007 and 2010, teachers have been brought under the spotlight in a very negative manner. The teaching profession has been viewed with scrutiny ever since and most if not all teachers were being painted with the same brush of, lack of integrity and respect. The purpose of the study was to examine how teacher leaders performed leadership roles and also to establish whether such roles were within professional parameters or not. There was a need to understand how teacher leaders understood the term professionalism as well as to ascertain what factors promoted and hindered the development of teacher leaders as professionals. The study was conducted within a qualitative, interpretive paradigm and took the form of a case study of five educators, who were two Heads of Department and three post level one teachers’ in an urban primary school in KwaZulu-Natal. Data collection techniques included semi – structured individual interviews, a focus group interview, questionnaires and observation. Data were analyzed using thematic content analysis. The findings of the study revealed that although teachers were actively engaging in leadership roles, very little was done to develop these teachers as professionals. This study acknowledges that management members of schools play a crucial role in the development of teacher leaders as professionals by creating opportunities for this professional development. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.

Embora o ato de traduzir a interação oral entre duas ou mais pessoas seja algo infinitamente antigo, a interpretação de conferências, como profissão, remonta ao início do Século XX, com as Conferências de Paz realizadas em Paris, ao final da Primeira Guerra Mundial. A profissão se consolida com a criação da Liga das Nações e, posteriormente, da Organização das Nações Unidas e com o aumento do número de congressos e reuniões científicas internacionais, além da criação de diversos organismos internacionais após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. No Brasil, a interpretação desponta como profissão na segunda metade da década de 40 do século passado e vai-se consolidando aos poucos, ao longo das décadas seguintes. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo narrar e analisar criticamente a história da profissão no Brasil, a partir de depoimentos de seus diversos participantes, a saber intérpretes de conferência e formadores de intérpretes. O arsenal teórico que subsidia a coleta e análise das entrevistas parte de pressupostos da História Oral, sem, contudo, se limitar a tal abordagem teórica, inserindo-se na grade área de Estudos da Tradução, utilizando a visão do pesquisador insider proposta por Koskinen (2008). O ecletismo da metodologia abrange, ainda, a análise crítica de elementos da mídia, de correspondências por correio eletrônico e de informações de websites de alguns cursos de formação. A pesquisa inclui os primeiros eventos importantes e a criação da Associação Profissional de Intérpretes de Conferência (APIC), em 1971, em relato de sua idealizadora e primeira presidente, Ulla Schneider e das demais fundadoras vivas. O trabalho, tentando suprir uma lacuna nos Estudos da Interpretação no Brasil e em língua portuguesa como um todo, inclui ainda outras questões contemporâneas pertinentes à profissão, tais como o relacionamento entre intérpretes e desses com agenciadores e organizadores de eventos, além de apresentar uma visão de como a mídia brasileira vê os intérpretes. Inclui também uma panorâmica de grandes eventos internacionais realizados no Brasil, na voz de uma das principais coordenadoras de intérpretes, Simone Troula. Todo um capítulo é dedicado à formação de intérpretes no Brasil, não só em seu aspecto histórico, mas também no que tange à formação hoje em dia, comparando e contrastando os programas existentes no Brasil a seus congêneres internacionais. O trabalho finaliza com uma breve visão de possíveis cenários da profissão, a partir de novos elementos como a interpretação remota, a realização de eventos monolíngues, sobretudo em inglês, e a atuação cada vez maior de agenciadores de intérpretes. Conclui-se o estudo com algumas sugestões para pesquisas futuras em relação à área de estudo abordada. / Although oral translation between people interacting in different languages has existed since times immemorial, conference interpreting as a profession appears in the beginning of the 20th century, with the Paris Peace Conferences, at the end of the First World War. The profession develops at the League of Nations and, later, at the United Nation Organization. It is also fostered by the multiplication of international conferences and technical meetings, as well as the creation of a myriad international organizations, after the Second World War. In Brazil, conference interpreting appears as a profession in the 1940s and slowly grows in the following decades. This research aims at critically narrating the history of this profession in Brazil, from interviews given by its participants, namely conference interpreters and interpreter trainers. Interviews were carried out and analyzed under the light of Oral History methods. This work, however, does not confine itself to the Oral History methodology but rather fits into the field of Translation Studies, relying also on Koskinens (2008) view of the insider researcher. The several sources of data for this study also include samples from the press, e-mail correspondence and information gathered from websites of training institutions. This dissertation deals with the first interpreted events in Brazil and the creation of the Professional Association of Conference Interpreters (APIC), in 1971, from interviews by its main creator and first president, Ulla Schneider, and the other living founders. Trying to bridge a gap in Interpreting Studies in Brazil and in the Portuguese language in general, this work includes other present issues relating to the profession, such as relationships between interpreters and between them and translation agencies and event organizers, as well as a brief analysis of how the Brazilian press sees interpreters. It also includes an overview of some important international conferences held in Brazil through the voice of one of the most important chief interpreters in these events, Simone Troula. A whole chapter is dedicated to interpreter training in Brazil, covering not only its history but other issues pertaining interpreting training these days, comparing and contrasting Brazilian programs with their international counterparts. The work concludes with a brief view of possible future scenarios for the profession, focusing on new elements such as remote interpreting, monolingual conferences, held mostly in English, and the ever-growing role played by translation agencies and professional conference organizers. It closes with some suggestions for further research in interpreting as a field of study.

Si l’industrie aéronautique a fait l’objet d’investigations historiques poussées, le versant économique et social semble être resté dans l’ombre pour ce qui concerne l’après Seconde Guerre mondiale. Cette thèse de doctorat, à travers l’exemple d’un établissement de constructions aéronautiques nationalisé, s’intéresse au rôle joué par les salariés dans l’édification de l’entreprise sur une trentaine d’années, au moyen d’une micro-histoire socio-économique. L’analyse des trajectoires suivies par la négociation collective, ainsi qu’une attention portée au développement industriel et à l’activité productive, permettent de mettre en lumière comment se construisent, au quotidien, les relations professionnelles au sein d’une firme relevant de l’autorité de l’État. La politisation des rapports sociaux qui découle de son statut et de son rôle dans la Défense nationale, amène souvent ses acteurs à s’opposer sur les questions sociales, industrielles ou encore politiques tout au long des années 1950 et des années 1960. Dans le dernier tiers de cette décennie, une partie d’entre eux décide finalement de revenir à la table des négociations et de fonder leurs relations sur des pratiques contractuelles, ce qui contribue, au terme de discussions difficiles, à un apaisement durable des relations sociales.Ainsi, s’interroger sur les rapports qui prennent forme dans l’espace usinier, à une échelle multiscalaire – entre local, national et international et entre établissement, société, branche et interprofessionnel – permet de mettre en évidence la capacité qu’ont les protagonistes à réaliser ou non des compromis. Il s’agit de mieux comprendre le rôle des conflits et des consensus dans le développement industriel, afin de démontrer que de la santé de relations sociales peut dépendre, pour partie, son développement socio-économique. L’exemple démontre qu’à rebours des schémas communément admis, il existe une culture de la négociation dans les entreprises, lorsque le compromis est rendu possible par la coopération des diverses parties, et ce, même lorsque les relations professionnelles y sont fondées sur le rapport de forces, ou marquées par l’influence des thématiques politiques et par l’intrication des rôles de l’État. / Whilst the aviation industry has been the subject of extensive historical investigations, economic and social topics seem to have remained in the shadows as far as the post-World War II period is concerned. This PhD thesis, through the example of a state-owned aeronautical company, and using a socio-economic micro-history method, focuses on the role played by workers in the building of an aeronautics company over thirty years. By analysing the trajectories followed by collective bargaining, as well as paying attention to industrial development and productive activity, this thesis highlights how professional relationships were built, day after day, inside a firm under the authority of the State. The politicization of industrial relationships, that derived from the company’s status and role in National Defence, often led its actors to oppose each other on social, industrial or political issues throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In the last third of this decade, some of these actors finally decided to return to the bargaining table and base their relations on contractual practices, which contributed, after difficult discussions, to a lasting mollification of these industrial relations.Hence, using a multi-scalar approach to interrogate the relationships that emerged in the factory space, between local, national and international and between plant, firm, branch and inter-professional, makes it possible to evidence the capacity of the protagonists to either succeed or fail in coming to compromises and trade-offs. The aim is thus to understand the role of conflict and consensus in industrial development, in order to demonstrate that the health of industrial relations may depend, at least partly, on a company’s socio-economic development. This example also shows that, contrary to commonly accepted thought, there is a culture of bargaining in French companies, when trade-offs are made possible by the cooperation of the various protagonists, even when professional relationships are based on power dynamics, or influenced by political issues and by the complexities of State intervention. / Si la industria aeronáutica fue el objeto de numerosas investigaciones históricas, los aspectos económicos y sociales aun permanecen en la sombra, por el período posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Esta tesis doctoral, con el ejemplo de una empresa de construcción aeronáutica pública, y mediante una microhistoria socioeconómica, se centra en el papel de los trabajadores en su desarrollo industrial, durante más de treinta años. El análisis de las trayectorias seguidas por la negociación colectiva, así como la atención prestada al desarrollo industrial y a la actividad productiva, permiten destacar la construcción, a diario, de las relaciones profesionales dentro de una compañía que depende de la autoridad del estado. La politización de las relaciones sociales, que se deriva de su estatus y de su papel en la Defensa Nacional, acarrea a sus actores a menudo a oponerse en asuntos sociales, industriales o políticos, a lo largo de las décadas de 1950 y 1960. En el último tercio de esta década, parte de ellos decidieron finalmente volver a negociar y a basar sus relaciones en prácticas contractuales, lo cual contribuye, después de difíciles discusiones, a mejorar el entorno social.Así, preguntarse sobre las relaciones que se establecen en el espacio de la fábrica, con un enfoque multiescalar, – entre local, nacional e internacional, y entre fabrica, sociedad, rama profesional e interprofesional –, permite subrayar la habilidad de los protagonistas de conseguir o no acuerdos. Se trata de mejorar la comprensión del rol de los conflictos y de los consensos en el desarrollo industrial, con el fin de demostrar que de la salud de las relaciones sociales puede depender el desarrollo socioeconómico de las empresas. El ejemplo demuestra que, contrariamente a los patrones comúnmente aceptados, existe una cultura de negociación en el seno de las empresas francesas, cuando el consenso se hace posible gracias a la cooperación de las distintas partes, incluso cuando las relaciones profesionales se basan en el equilibrio de fuerzas, o están marcadas por la influencia de temas políticos y por los papeles intrincados del Estado.