Bargaining for Change : Union Politics in North America and Europe /

This volume offers eight essays dealing with union politics in North America and Western Europe in the period since the mid-1970s. They specify the problems confronting organized labor since that time and explore the ways in which unions have responded. Most of the authors explicitly engage in cross...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Golden, Miriam (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Daley, Anthony (Contribuidor), Kahn, Peggy (Contribuidor), Locke, Richard (Contribuidor), Money, Jeannette (Contribuidor), Pontusson, Jonas (Contribuidor, Editor ), Swenson, Peter (Contribuidor), Thelen, Kathleen (Contribuidor), Yates, Charlotte (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Organizational and Political-Economic Perspectives on Union Politics
  • Part 1. National Confederations and Wage Coordination
  • 1. Union Politics, the Welfare State, and Intraclass Conflict in Sweden and Germany
  • 2. The Decentralization of Collective Bargaining in Belgium, France, and the United States
  • Part 2. Industrial Unions and Sectoral Change
  • 3. North American Autoworkers5 Response to Restructuring
  • 4. The Steel Crisis and Labor Politics in France and the United States
  • 5. Union Politics and the Restructuring of the British Coal Industry
  • Part 3. Local Unions and Changes at the Firm Level
  • 6. The Politics of Flexibility in the German Metalworking Industries
  • 7. Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Relations in the Italian Automobile Industry
  • 8. Unions, New Technology, and Job Redesign at Volvo and British Leyland
  • Conclusion: Current Trends in Trade Union Politics
  • Contributors
  • Index

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