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Thatcherism delayed? The Irish crisis and the paradox of social partnership
Author(s) -
McDonough Terrence,
Dundon Tony
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.2010.00585.x
Subject(s) - social partnership , irish , voluntarism (philosophy) , general partnership , thatcherism , industrial relations , political economy , political science , state (computer science) , economics , sociology , law , politics , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , algorithm , computer science
This article reviews the state of Irish industrial relations in light of the current economic crisis. It argues that social partnership, paradoxically, was rooted in the continuation of a tradition of permissive voluntarism with minimal employment rights with both direct and indirect implications for the current Irish economic crisis. As such, Irish industrial relations cannot be understood in isolation from a broader analysis of the rise and fall of social structures of capitalist accumulation. The discussion considers the prognosis for social partnership post‐economic crisis.