UID:
almafu_9960117093502883
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 261 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-108-54617-X
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1-108-54641-2
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1-139-08838-6
Content:
This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different country and including quantitative analysis. The book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of what has happened to the institutions that regulate the labor market, as well as the relations between employers, unions, and states in Western Europe since the collapse of the long postwar boom. The primary theoretical goal of this book is to provide a critical examination of some of the central claims of comparative political economy, particularly those involving the role and resilience of national institutions in regulating and managing capitalist political economies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Sep 2017).
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Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Trajectories of European Industrial Relations -- 2 Arguing for Neoliberal Convergence -- 3 Quantitative Analysis of Industrial Relations Change -- 4 Constructing a Liberal Market Economy: The Collapse of Collective Regulation in Britain -- 5 State-Led Liberalization and the Transformation of Worker Representation in France -- 6 Softening Institutions: The Liberalization of German Industrial Relations -- 7 "Well Burrowed, Old Mole!": The Rise and Decline of Concessionary Corporatism in Italy -- 8 The Conversion of Corporatism: Reengineering Swedish Industrial Relations for a Neoliberal Era -- 9 Actors, Institutions and Pathways: The Liberalization of Industrial Relations in Western Europe -- 10 From Industrial Relations Liberalization to the Instability of Capitalist Growth -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-01872-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-60369-2
Language:
English
