Industrial relations and European state traditions
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Industrial relations and European state traditions
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [363]-387
Includes index
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Description
In some western European countries trade unions and employers' organizations share responsibility with government for maintaining order and efficiency in the labour market as a matter of course. In others such a role is seen as an unacceptable interference with either the free market or the prerogatives of the state, or both. How can we explain these differences? How enduring are they? Do they matter? In the 1970s there seemed to be a growing popularity for the first approach, leading to the explosion of interest in neo-corporatism; did all that evaporate during the ostensibly neo-liberal 1980s? Colin Crouch tries to answer these questions with reference to fifteen western European nations. Using a combination of rational choice theory and historical analysis he traces the development of industrial relations systems in these countries since the 1870s to the present. He ends by seeking explanations for differences further back in time, showing that longer-term historical explanations of contemporary institutions are more necessary than most exercises in policy analysis prefer to accept.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Organized interests in economy and polity: organized interests in the economy - diversity in Western European experience
- a theory of exchange in industrial relations systems
- rational action, political space, and historical reality. Part 2 A century of institutional development: 1870-1914 - on the threshold of organized capitalism
- organized industrial relations between the wars
- the post-war yars
- disorganized capitalism? an overview. Part 3 Economic organizations and political space: organized interests and political space - the religious base
- economic organizations and political space - historical legacies
- pathways to 20th-century industrial politics - the social democractic contribution.
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