Puzzle of Strikes - Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy

Zusammenfassung This is a book about strikes! focusing on the strategic interaction of workers! employers and the state. It is based on different forms of empirical evidence: statistical! historical! ethnographic and survey. Focusing on a variety of actors! theories and forms of empirical evidence! the book is almost unique in the social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables, figures and equations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The puzzle box; 2. Labor-market conditions and bargaining power; 3. When do workers strike? How the economy matters; 4. Organizational resources and collective action; 5. The structure of collective bargaining; 6. Class power, politics and conflict; 7. Mobilization processes: the 1969 autunno caldo; 8. Countermobilization processes: reactions by the state and employers to strike waves; Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Franzosi, Roberto P. Franzosi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521031233
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03123-3
• No. of pages: 532
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education