Negotiating the New Germany : : Can Social Partnership Survive? / / ed. by Lowell Turner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Christopher S.,; Auer, Peter,; Fichter, Michael,; Herrigel, Gary,; Jacoby, Wade,; Knuth, Matthias,; Locke, Richard M.,; Silvia, Stephen J.,; Turner, Lowell,; Webber, Douglas,; Wever, Kirsten S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Turner, Lowell,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 tables, 5 charts/graphs

'No other book that I am aware of places the German industrial relations system in the broader industrial and political context in an effort to understand the role of the industrial relations system in contributing to a nation's economic success and how that role is being affected by economic and political change.'—James P. Begin, Rutgers UniversityThe reunification of Germany in 1990 juxtaposed two very different models of industrial relations. This volume assesses the results. By the late 1980s, West Germany had developed and refined a largely collaborative relationship between business and labor, codified in law, that governed industrial relations effectively. How would East German workers, operating within a completely different system for forty years, respond to West Germany's institutional social partnership? Would western-style social partnership spread to all of the New Germany, or find itself seriously destabilized?The internationally recognized scholars who contribute to this volume are unanimous in their admiration of key elements in the German model. They diverge, however, on their assessments of the resilience of that model in the face of dramatic new challenges in the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Up Against the Fallen Wall: The Crisis of Social Partnership in Unified Germany -- I. Unifying Germany: Social Partnership Moves East -- 1. Institutional Stability Pays: German Industrial Relations under Pressure -- 2. The Dilemmas of Diffusion: Institutional Transfer and the Remaking of Vocational Training Practices in Eastern Germany -- 3. Active Labor Market Policy and German Unification: The Role of Employment and Training Companies -- 4. Unions in the New Lander: Evidence for the Urgency of Reform -- 5. Unifying Germany: Crisis, Conflict, and Social Partnership in the East -- II. The Political Economy of Crisis and Reform -- 6. Institutions Challenged: German Unification, Policy Errors, and The "Siren Song" of Deregulation -- 7. Political Adaptation to Growing Labor Market Segmentation -- 8. The Limits of German Manufacturing Flexibility -- 9. Renegotiating the German Model: Labor-Management Relations in the New Germany -- 10. The Second Coming of the Bonn Republic -- Conclusion: Uncertain Outcomes of Conflict and Negotiation -- Index