Social partnership at work : workplace relations in post-unification Germany / Carola M. Frege.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frege, Carola M., 1965- author.

Series:

Routledge studies in employment relations ; 2.

Routledge studies in employment relations ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial relations--Germany (East).

Industrial relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides the first comparative, in-depth analysis of workplace relations in East and West Germany. The author examines the success of the institutional transfer of West German labour organizations to East German workplaces in an effort to address questions central to the discussion of workplace relations in transitional economies, including: * can capitalist labour institutions be imposed on a former communist workforce? * what conditions determine the success or failure of these institutions? * can 'social partnership' between capital and labour be learned?

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Workplace relations in the former socialist GDR; The institutional setting: transformation of workplace relations in east Germany; Transforming socialist workplace relations: co-operation or subservience?; Social partnership in the east German clothing industry; Transformation at enterprise level: the case of Bodywear; The cultural embeddedness of new labour institutions in the east; Workers' attitudes in post-socialist east Germany

Methodology of the union membership surveys in the east and west German clothing industry Collective commitment in the east and west; Explaining post-socialist participation in collective activities; Theories of participation in collective activities; Determinants of union membership participation in the east and west; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Im imprint: LSE [and] Cardiff University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-245) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-65754-4

1-134-65755-2

1-280-33051-1

9780203263847

0-203-26384-7

0-203-06833-5

9780203068335

OCLC:

70729270