Ulteriori informazioni
Informationen zum Autor Thomas Fetzer is Assistant Professor in European Studies at Central European University, Budapest. Klappentext Paradoxes of internationalization deals with British and German trade union responses to the internationalization of corporate structures and strategies at Ford and General Motors between the late 1960s and the early twenty-first century. The book is based on research in numerous archives in Britain, Germany and the United States.The book points to the paradoxical effects of internationalization processes. First, it demonstrates how internationalization reinforced trade unions' national identities and allegiances. Second, the book highlights that internationalization made domestic trade union practices more similar in some respects, while it simultaneously contributed to the re-creation of diversity between and within the two countries. Third, the book shows that investment competition was paradoxically the most important precondition for the emergence of cross-border cooperation initiatives.The book will be of interest to academics and students in a range of disciplines from comparative industrial relations, to international political economy, business studies and transnational history. Zusammenfassung Paradoxes of Internationalization deals with British and German trade union responses to the internationalization of corporate structures and strategies at Ford and General Motors between the late 1960s and the early twenty-first century. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. German and British Trade Unions at Ford and General Motors: the local and national contexts2. Geocentric Internationalization: A new challenge for German and British trade unions at Ford and General Motors 3. Internationalization and the paradox of economic nationalism4. Internationalization and the paradox of domestic trade union practices5. Internationalization and the paradox of cross-border trade union cooperationConclusions...
Info autore
Thomas Fetzer is Assistant Professor in European Studies at Central European University, Budapest.
