The Future of Labour Movements: 43 (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803979770 ISBN 13: 9780803979772

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

After a decade dominated by `neo-liberal′ policies and by increasing managerial pressures towards labour flexibility in industrial relations, the role of labour movements is under challenge. In the light of the experience of the 1980s this volume provides an interdisciplinary reassessment of the traditions and future of collective worker′s action in Western states. Contributors assess the roles of labour movements as actors in the economic system through such mechanisms as collective bargaining, and as actors in the political arena. Labour movements and the institutions in which they are embodied, particularly trade unions, are also examined in the light of the broader social movements from which they originate.

Bringing together comparative research from a number of countries, this collection presents a unique source of analysis of recent and future trends in labour movements.

About this title

About the Author

Marino Regini is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Trento and President of the research committee on labour movements of the International Sociological Association

Contributors

The Future of Labour Movements

Colin Crouch Trinity College Oxford

Gosta Esping-Andersen European University Institute, Firenze

Richard Hyman University of Warwick

Horst Kern Gottingen University

Luca Lanzalaco Universita Bocconi Milan

Charles F Sabel MIT

Philippe C Schmitter Stanford University

Michael Shalev Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Wolfgang Streeck University of Wisconsin-Madison

J Samuel Valenzuela University of Notre Dame

Jelle Visser University of Amsterdam

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803979770
• ISBN 13: 9780803979772
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Regini Marino