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Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Softcover

Golden, Miriam A.

 
9780521484329: Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521484324 ISBN 13: 9780521484329
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss.

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Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory to generate testable propositions about when these situations will result in industrial conflict, Professor Golden illustrates the theory in a range of situations between 1950 and 1985 in Japan, Italy, and Britain. Additionally, the author shows how the theory explains why strikes over job loss almost never occur in postwar unionized firms in the United States. While these four countries exhibit substantial historical, cultural, and political differences - as well as marked variations in their industrial and economic structures - this book shows that unions' responses to job loss can be analyzed within the same theoretical framework in all cases.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521484324
ISBN 13 
9780521484329
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
216