Union of Parts : : Labor Politics in Postwar Germany / / Kathleen Thelen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Thelen, Kathleen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

Union of Parts examines one of the central puzzles in the economic and political successes of West Germany (FRG). In the decades between world war and reunification with the East, the FRG provided a model for combining high rates of unionization and substantial labor peace—indeed, for collaboration between organized labor and organized capital as both groups faced the dislocations involved in adjusting to a changing global marketplace.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Argument in Brief -- PART I. LABOR AND THE POLITICS OF ADJUSTMENT IN WEST GERMANY -- CHAPTER ONE. Continuity through Crisis -- CHAPTER TWO. Negotiated Adjustment in West Germany -- PART II. CODETERMINATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DUAL SYSTEM -- CHAPTER THREE. The Origins of the Dual System -- CHAPTER FOUR. Tensions in the Dual System -- PART III. WEST GERMAN LABOR IN THE CRISIS -- CHAPTER FIVE. Markets and Politics in Transition, 1973—1978 -- CHAPTER SIX. Works Council Politics in the Crisis -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Contemporary Trends in Central Bargaining -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Contemporary Trends in Union Technology Policy -- CHAPTER NINE. The Politics of Work Reorganization: A Comparative Perspective -- CHAPTER TEN. Labor Politics and Industrial Adjustment -- Bibliography -- Index