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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Turner, Lowell,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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.

Table of 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