Fighting for Partnership : Labor and Politics in Unified Germany / Lowell Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Lowell, author.

Series:

Cornell studies in political economy.

Cornell Studies in Political Economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial relations--Germany.

Industrial relations.

Labor--Germany.

Labor.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 195 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

West Germany from 1949 to 1990 was a story of virtually unparalleled political and economic success. This economic miracle incorporated a well-functioning political democracy, expanded to include a "social partnership" system of economic representation. Then the Wall came down. Economic crisis in the East-industrial collapse, massive layoffs, a demoralized workforce-triggered gloomy predictions. Was this the beginning of the end for the widely admired "German model"? Lowell Turner has extensively researched the German transformation in the 1990s. Indeed, in 1993 he was at the factory gates at Siemens in Rostock for the first major strike in post-Cold War eastern Germany. In that strike, and in a series of other incisively analyzed workplace and job developments in eastern Germany, he shows the remarkable resilience and flexibility of the German social partnership and the contribution of its institutions to unification. His controversial and, to some, radical findings will stimulate debate at home and abroad.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

PROLOGUE The East in Open Conflict: The Great Strike of 1993

CHAPTER ONE. Social Partnership at the Crossroads: Unified Germany in a World Transformed

CHAPTER Two. Worlds Apart, Thrown Together: New Institutions and Economic Collapse

CHAPTER THREE. Transformation in the East: Labor-Management Case Studies, 1990-1995

CHAPTER FOUR. Crisis, Modernization, and the Resilience of Social Partnership

CHAPTER FIVE. Renewed Conflict in the West, I993~~i994

CHAPTER SIX. Permanent Crisis? Social Partnership in the European and Global Economy, 1995-1997

CHAPTER SEVEN. Institutional Change in Turbulent Markets

EPILOGUE

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1717-0

OCLC:

1050162103