Industrial Redundancies: A Comparative Analysis of the Chemical and Clothing Industries in the UK and ItalyCompares unemployment and restructuring in the chemical and clothing industries of Brindisi, southern Italy, and Teesside, northern England, during the 1990s. Contends that the rigidity of the cost of labour and the institutional regulation of the employment relation forces companies to adjust to adverse market conditions by reducing employment rather than real wages. |
Contents
List of Figures | 9 |
Corporate Restructuring and Redundancies on Teesside | 42 |
Between Corporatism and Reciprocity | 100 |
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action activities adjustment affect analysis behaviour business cycles buyers capital and labour capitalist cent characterized chemical companies chemical industry chemical sector Cleveland County clothing companies clothing industry clothing sector competition context contract corporate corporatist cost of labour demand dynamics economic efficiency efficiency wage employment change employment relations EniChem explained factors favoured firms flexibility ICI's impact individual industrial relations industrial restructuring industrial unemployment industry on Teesside influence institutionalist institutionalist perspective internal investment Istat job losses labour market macro-economic methodological individualism Mezzogiorno Montedison neo-classical organization outcome petrochemical phase plant closures polyethylene problem processes of restructuring production process profitability Puglia rational reduce redundancies and restructuring regulation theory relations of production relationship restructuring and redundancies restructuring processes role segment social spatial specific strategies subcontracting Teesside and Brindisi Teesside's theoretical trade unions traditional transformation trends TVJSU unemployed wage determination wage relation whilst workforce workplace
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After the Three Italies: Wealth, Inequality and Industrial Change Michael Dunford,Lidia Greco No preview available - 2005 |