Heroic Defeats - The Politics of Job Loss

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The puzzle of union responses to workforce reductions; 2. Games analyzing job loss; 3. Job loss in the Italian and British automobile industries; 4. Triggers of industrial action; 5. Pit closures in the Japanese and British mining industries; 6. Seeking allies: how other actors affect interactions over job loss; 7. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam A. Golden, Miriam A. (University of California Golden, Golden Miriam a.
• Assisted by: Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.1996
• EAN: 9780521484329
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48432-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education