Bargaining for Change : : Union Politics in North America and Europe / / Miriam Golden; ed. by Jonas Pontusson.
This volume offers eight essays dealing with union politics in North America and Western Europe in the period since the mid-1970s. They specify the problems confronting organized labor since that time and explore the ways in which unions have responded. Most of the authors explicitly engage in cross...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Organizational and Political-Economic Perspectives on Union Politics
- Part 1. National Confederations and Wage Coordination
- 1. Union Politics, the Welfare State, and Intraclass Conflict in Sweden and Germany
- 2. The Decentralization of Collective Bargaining in Belgium, France, and the United States
- Part 2. Industrial Unions and Sectoral Change
- 3. North American Autoworkers5 Response to Restructuring
- 4. The Steel Crisis and Labor Politics in France and the United States
- 5. Union Politics and the Restructuring of the British Coal Industry
- Part 3. Local Unions and Changes at the Firm Level
- 6. The Politics of Flexibility in the German Metalworking Industries
- 7. Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Relations in the Italian Automobile Industry
- 8. Unions, New Technology, and Job Redesign at Volvo and British Leyland
- Conclusion: Current Trends in Trade Union Politics
- Contributors
- Index