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The brave new world of European labor : European trade unions at the millennium / Andrew Martin [and eight others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Andrew, 1929- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor unions--Europe.
- Labor unions.
- Employment forecasting--Europe.
- Employment forecasting.
- Collective bargaining--Europe.
- Collective bargaining.
- Labor unions--Europe--Forecasting.
- Collective bargaining--Europe--Forecasting.
- Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
- Twenty-first century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 416 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- PREFACE
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- Chapter 1 EUROPEAN UNIONS FACE THE MILLENNIUM
- Chapter 2 UNFORGIVEN British Trade Unionism in Crisis
- Chapter 3 EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE German Industrial Relations Since 1980
- Chapter 4 “YESTERDAY’S MODERN TIMES ARE NO LONGER MODERN” Swedish Unions Confront the Double Shift1
- Chapter 5 THE HOLLOWING OUT OF FRENCH UNIONS Politics and Industrial Relations After 1981
- Chapter 6 THE RESURGENCE OF ITALIAN UNIONS?
- Chapter 7 TIGHTROPE Spanish Unions and Labor Market Segmentation
- Chapter 8 IN THE LINE OF FIRE The Europeanization of Labor Representation
- Chapter 9 THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78920-593-X
- 1-57181-168-0
- 1-57181-167-2
- OCLC:
- 1101621201
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