Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The contributors to this volume offer both a measured reassessment of the experience of labour movements in the 1980s and a re-interpretation of their role in the new circumstances of the 1990s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Marino Regini The Past and Future of Social Studies of Labour Movements The Strength of Union Movements in Advanced Capitalist Democracies - Jelle Visser Social and Organizational Variations Labour Movements and Political Systems - J Samuel Valenzuela Some Variations The Resurgence of Labour Quiescence - Michael Shalev The Emerging Realignment Between Labour Movements and Welfare States - Gøsta Esping-Andersen Trade Unions and the Disaggregation of the Working Class - Richard Hyman The Fate of Articulated Industrial Relations Systems - Colin Crouch A Stock-taking After the Neo-liberal Decade Europe s Internal Market, Business Associability and the Labour Movement - Luca Lanzalaco and Philippe C Schmitter Trade Unions and Decentralized Production - Horst Kern and Charles F Sabel A Sketch of Strategic Problems in the German Labour Movement Training and the New Industrial Relations - Wolfgang Streeck A Strategic Role for Unions? ...

Klappentext

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.

Zusammenfassung
The contributors to this volume offer both a measured reassessment of the experience of labour movements in the 1980s and a re-interpretation of their role in the new circumstances of the 1990s.

Inhalt

Introduction - Marino Regini
The Past and Future of Social Studies of Labour Movements
The Strength of Union Movements in Advanced Capitalist Democracies - Jelle Visser
Social and Organizational Variations
Labour Movements and Political Systems - J Samuel Valenzuela
Some Variations
The Resurgence of Labour Quiescence - Michael Shalev
The Emerging Realignment Between Labour Movements and Welfare States - Gøsta Esping-Andersen
Trade Unions and the Disaggregation of the Working Class - Richard Hyman
The Fate of Articulated Industrial Relations Systems - Colin Crouch
A Stock-taking After the `Neo-liberal Decade
Europe s Internal Market, Business Associability and the Labour Movement - Luca Lanzalaco and Philippe C Schmitter
Trade Unions and Decentralized Production - Horst Kern and Charles F Sabel
A Sketch of Strategic Problems in the German Labour Movement
Training and the New Industrial Relations - Wolfgang Streeck
A Strategic Role for Unions?