Premium
Productivity Coalitions and the Future of European Corporatism
Author(s) -
WINDOLF PAUL
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1989.tb00719.x
Subject(s) - corporatism , collective bargaining , productivity , argument (complex analysis) , industrial relations , german , recession , work (physics) , economic system , economics , market economy , political science , macroeconomics , engineering , management , geography , law , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , politics
This paper argues that new technology, the recession, and changing condition in the world market have transformed the ogranization of work and the system of industrial relations in many European countries. Many show a tendency toward decentralized collective bargaining at he firm level. the growing strength of workers' representative at the firm level has weakend the highly centralized bargaining systems (corporatism) which have contributed much to the stability of industrial relations. Case studies, one of west German works councils and one of Italian labormanagement committees, support the argument.