The future of labour movements
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The future of labour movements
（Sage studies in international sociology, v. 43）
Sage, 1994, c1992
[1st paperback ed.]
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1st published 1992
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
After a decade dominated by `neo-liberal' policies and by increasing managerial pressures towards labour flexibility in industrial relations, the role of labour movements is under challenge. In the light of the experience of the 1980s this volume provides an interdisciplinary reassessment of the traditions and future of collective worker's action in Western states. Contributors assess the roles of labour movements as actors in the economic system through such mechanisms as collective bargaining, and as actors in the political arena. Labour movements and the institutions in which they are embodied, particularly trade unions, are also examined in the light of the broader social movements from which they originate.
Bringing together comparative research from a number of countries, this collection presents a unique source of analysis of recent and future trends in labour movements.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Marino Regini
The Past and Future of Social Studies of Labour Movements
The Strength of Union Movements in Advanced Capitalist Democracies - Jelle Visser
Social and Organizational Variations
Labour Movements and Political Systems - J Samuel Valenzuela
Some Variations
The Resurgence of Labour Quiescence - Michael Shalev
The Emerging Realignment Between Labour Movements and Welfare States - Gosta Esping-Andersen
Trade Unions and the Disaggregation of the Working Class - Richard Hyman
The Fate of Articulated Industrial Relations Systems - Colin Crouch
A Stock-taking After the `Neo-liberal' Decade
Europe's Internal Market, Business Associability and the Labour Movement - Luca Lanzalaco and Philippe C Schmitter
Trade Unions and Decentralized Production - Horst Kern and Charles F Sabel
A Sketch of Strategic Problems in the German Labour Movement
Training and the New Industrial Relations - Wolfgang Streeck
A Strategic Role for Unions?
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