European Trade Unions - Change and Response

Zusatztext '...this book is not written in indigestible Euro-jargon and it is positively interesting.' - British Journal of Industrial Relations 2001 Informationen zum Autor Teresa Lawlor, Mike Rigby, Roger Smith Klappentext This volume:* explores the extent to which European Industrial Relations systems are converging *explores what has been the unions' reaction to changes in the economic environment * includes studies from key sectors: electronics, food manufacturing, banking and public administration * compares trade unions in these sectors in five of Europes most important economies: Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy and Denmark Zusammenfassung Trade unions in the European Union face an increasingly hostile environment, conditioned by growing globalization and structural changes in the European economies. This book considers the responses unions have been developing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The convergence/divergence debate in comparative industrial relationsRoger Smith 2. Approaches to the contemporary role of trade unionsMike Rigby 3. The national industrial relations contextsManuel Perez Yruela and Rafael Serrano del Rosal 4. ElectronicsMike Rigby 5. Food manufacturingRoger Smith 6. BankingTeresa Lawlor and Rafael Serrano del Rosal 7. Central government administrationRosario Morillo Balado 8. Summary and conclusionsMike Rigby, Roger Smith and Manuel Perez Yruela

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Rigby Lawlor, Mike Etc. Smith Rigby, RIGBY MIKE ETC SMITH ROGER SOU
• Assisted by: Teresa Lawlor (Editor), Lawlor Teresa (Editor), Mike Rigby (Editor), Rigby Mike (Editor), Roger Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.1999
• EAN: 9780415170437
• ISBN: 978-0-415-17043-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Routledge Studies in the European Economy; Routledge Studies in the Europ; Routledge Studies in the European Economy
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Europe, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, macroeconomics, Trade Unions, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions