Between Bargaining and Politics - An Introduction to European Labor Relations

This text provides an overview and concise introduction to labor relations in Europe. The author seeks to transcend nationalism in labor relations by focusing his discussion and analysis on the continent as a whole and on groups of countries. The national focus is to some extent given up, not for a concentration on differences within nations, but in favor of a discussion of common European developments. European labor relations have a number of basic features in common, not only in collective bargaining and conflict, but also in worker participation and in the role of national governments. And, in a number of ways, these features are strikingly different from the labor relations model seen in the United States. The text, therefore, offers an illuminating analysis of commonalities and differences within European labor relations, as well as between the United States and Europe.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Corporatism
Trade Unions, Employers, Parties and Politics
A Short History
Labor Relations and Politics in the 1990s
Collective Bargaining and Conflict
Worker Participation in the Enterprise
From Sector Uniformity to Enterprise Diversity
Labor Conditions in Europe
The European Union
Five Pairs of Nations
A Summary in American Terms
Bibliography
Index

About the author

HANS SLOMP is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He is the author of Labor Relations in Europe: A History of Issues and Developments (Greenwood, 1990).

Product details

• Authors: Hans Slomp, Slomp Hans
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1996
• EAN: 9780275956080
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95608-0
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Sociology: work & labour, Central / national / federal government policies, Sociology: work and labour, Central government policies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics