The Future of Labour Movements

1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-8039-7977-2
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, Band 43, 288 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 410 g

Reihe: SAGE Studies in International Sociology

After a decade dominated by `neo-liberal' policies and by increasing managerial pressures towards labour flexibility in industrial relations, the role of labour movements is under challenge. In the light of the experience of the 1980s this volume provides an interdisciplinary reassessment of the traditions and future of collective worker's action in Western states. Contributors assess the roles of labour movements as actors in the economic system through such mechanisms as collective bargaining, and as actors in the political arena. Labour movements and the institutions in which they are embodied, particularly trade unions, are also examined in the light of the broader social movements from which they originate.

Bringing together comparative research from a number of countries, this collection presents a unique source of analysis of recent and future trends in labour movements.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Regini, Marino

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Marino Regini
The Past and Future of Social Studies of Labour Movements
The Strength of Union Movements in Advanced Capitalist Democracies - Jelle Visser
Social and Organizational Variations
Labour Movements and Political Systems - J Samuel Valenzuela
Some Variations
The Resurgence of Labour Quiescence - Michael Shalev
The Emerging Realignment Between Labour Movements and Welfare States - Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Trade Unions and the Disaggregation of the Working Class - Richard Hyman
The Fate of Articulated Industrial Relations Systems - Colin Crouch
A Stock-taking After the `Neo-liberal' Decade
Europe's Internal Market, Business Associability and the Labour Movement - Luca Lanzalaco and Philippe C Schmitter
Trade Unions and Decentralized Production - Horst Kern and Charles F Sabel
A Sketch of Strategic Problems in the German Labour Movement
Training and the New Industrial Relations - Wolfgang Streeck
A Strategic Role for Unions?

Über Autor(innen)

Regini, Marino
Marino Regini is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Trento and President of the research committee on labour movements of the International Sociological Association

Contributors

The Future of Labour Movements

Colin Crouch Trinity College Oxford

Gosta Esping-Andersen European University Institute, Firenze

Richard Hyman University of Warwick

Horst Kern Gottingen University

Luca Lanzalaco Universita Bocconi Milan

Charles F Sabel MIT

Philippe C Schmitter Stanford University

Michael Shalev Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Wolfgang Streeck University of Wisconsin-Madison

J Samuel Valenzuela University of Notre Dame

Jelle Visser University of Amsterdam