Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations Since the 1970sThis book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different country and including quantitative analysis. The book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of what has happened to the institutions that regulate the labor market, as well as the relations between employers, unions, and states in Western Europe since the collapse of the long postwar boom. The primary theoretical goal of this book is to provide a critical examination of some of the central claims of comparative political economy, particularly those involving the role and resilience of national institutions in regulating and managing capitalist political economies. |
Contents
The Collapse | 51 |
StateLed Liberalization and the Transformation of Worker | 73 |
Industrial Relations | 97 |
7 | 121 |
8 | 143 |
Industrial Relations in Western Europe | 172 |
of Capitalist Growth | 197 |
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253 | |
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actors aggregate demand argued Baccaro bargaining coverage capitalism capitalist CGIL chapter CISL collective agreements collective bargaining collective regulation consumption contracts convergence coordination corporatism corporatist councils countries crisis decline demand deregulation derogation employer discretion European exports firm-level agreements flexibility Fordist France French Germany growth model I.OO I.OO I.OO IG Metall important Industrial Agreement industrial relations institutions industrial relations system industry-level inside the firm institutional change institutionalization Italian Italy labor law labor market labor movement legislation liberalization of industrial limited manufacturing mechanisms MEDEF ment negotiated neoliberal O.OO O.OO OECD opening clauses organization percent period political economy Pontusson productivity public sector real wages rela result role sectoral agreements shift Soskice Streeck strike Sweden Swedish Swedish industrial relations Thelen tion trade unions trajectory trial relations union confederations union delegates union density United Kingdom wage bargaining wage increases wage moderation wage share wage-led workers workplace