The Brave New World of European Labor

European Trade Unions at the Millennium
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-57181-167-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in the post-World War II era. The recent shift to lower growth, rising unemployment, renewed European integration, neo-liberalism, and globalization has challenged this "European Model" and the unions' place in it. These essays, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, examine responses of six major European union movements to the dramatic changes in economic and political conditions in the last two decades. They are the result of a group research effort and are based on a common framework which lends it quite an exceptional coherence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, Andrew

Ross, George

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. European Unions Face the Millennium

George Ross and Andrew Martin

Chapter 2. Unforgiven: British Trade Unionism in Crisis

Chris Howell Chapter 3. Every Which Way But Loose: German Industrial Relations Since 1980

Stephen J. Silvia

Chapter 4. "Yesterday's Modern Times Are No Longer Modern": Swedish Unions Confront the Double Shift

Rianne Mahon

Chapter 5. The Hollowing of French Unions: Politics and Industrial Relations After 1981

Anthony Daley

Chapter 6. The Resurgence of Italian Unions?

Richard M. Locke and Lucio Baccaro

Chapter 7. Tightrope: Spanish Unions and Labor Market Segmentation

Lydia Fraile

Chapter 8. In the Line of Fire: The Europeanization of Labor Representation

Andrew Martin and George Ross

Chapter 9. Conclusion: Through a Glass Darkly

George Ross and Andrew Martin

Über Autor(innen)

Ross, George
George Ross is Morris Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought at Brandeis University and Senior Associate of the Mindade Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He is also editor of French Politics and Society, and Chair of the West European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association.

Martin, Andrew
Andrew Martin is Research Affiliate of the Harvard Center for European Studies. His research has focused on labor movements in Western Europe and North America.

Andrew Martin is Research Affiliate of the Harvard Center for European Studies. His research has focused on labor movements in Western Europe and North America.