Education
His economics Doctor of Philosophy thesis relates to the building up of the French social security system between 1920 and 1980.
economist politician sociologist
His economics Doctor of Philosophy thesis relates to the building up of the French social security system between 1920 and 1980.
He is (since 2009) an emeritus professor of Sociology, and previously taught at Paris West University Nanterre Louisiana Défense. He began his academic career in 1971 at the University Institutes of Technology of the University of Lorraine as an assistant and then as a lecturer in economics. He insists instead on the "anti-capitalist nature of the institutions of socialization of wages".
His research focuses on the sociology of wages and comparing social protection systems in Europe.
His work has also focused on pensions, going against the French government"s proposed reforms in 2010.
He challenges the interpretation that makes the 1945 Social Security a necessary element of the Fordist era of capitalism. He leads the European Institute of Wages and a popular education association called Réseau Salariat, which promotes the idea of a living wage as an alternative proposal to the basic income - an idea denounced by Friot as "the spare wheel of capitalism".