The brave new world of European labor : European trade unions at the millennium / Andrew Martin & George Ross ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Andrew, 1929-

Ross, George, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor unions--Europe.

Labor unions.

Employment forecasting.

Collective bargaining.

Forecasting.

Europe.

Collective bargaining--Europe.

Labor unions--Europe--Forecasting.

Collective bargaining--Europe--Forecasting.

Employment forecasting--Europe.

Twenty-first century--Forecasts.

Twenty-first century.

Physical Description:

xv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 1999.

Summary:

European union movements played a central role in promoting a "European model 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 Was 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. Its value is enhanced by the editors' conclusion that reflects upon new union positions and their implications, in particular the most important question of what will happen to the 'European model of society' in consequence.

Contents:

Chapter 1 European Unions Face the Millennium / George Ross, Andrew Martin 1

Chapter 2 Unforgiven: British Trade Unionism in Crisis / Chris Howell 26

Chapter 3 Every Which Way But Loose: German Industrial Relations Since 1980 / Stephen J. Silvia 75

Chapter 4 "Yesterday's Modern Times Are No Longer Modern": Swedish Unions Confront the Double Shift / Rianne Mahon 125

Chapter 5 The Hollowing Out of French Unions: Politics and Industrial Relations After 1981 / Anthony Daley 167

Chapter 6 The Resurgence of Italian Unions? / Richard M. Locke, Lucio Baccaro 217

Chapter 7 Tightrope: Spanish Unions and Labor Market Segmentation / Lydia Fraile 269

Chapter 8 In the Line of Fire: The Europeanization of Labor Representation / Andrew Martin, George Ross 312

Chapter 9 Through a Glass Darkly / George Ross, Andrew Martin 368.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1571811672

1571811680

OCLC:

39839339