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Description

1. xv, 356 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "This book compares sources of worker and employer power in Germany, South Africa, and the United States in order to identify the sources of comparative U.S. decline in union power and to more precisely analyze the nature of labor-movement power. It finds that this power is not confined to allied parties, union confederations, or strikes, but rather consists of the capacity to autonomously translate power from one context to the next. By combining their product, labor market, and labor law advantages through their dominant employers' associations, leading firms are able to impose constraints on labor's free collective bargaining regionally and nationally, defeating employer interests that are more amenable to labor in the process. Through an examination of these patterns of interest organization, the book shows, however, that initial employer advantages prove to be contingent and unstable and that employers are forced to cede to more far-reaching demands of increasingly organized workers"--

Subject

1. Labor unions
2. Working class
3. Arbeitswelt
4. Fackliga organisationer
5. United States
6. Labor unions > South Africa > History
7. Arbeiterklasse
8. Working class > Germany > History
9. Gewerkschaft
10. Germany
11. Labor unions > Germany > History
12. Working class > South Africa > History
13. Arbetarklassen
14. POLITICAL SCIENCE > General
15. Internationaler Vergleich
16. Labor unions > United States > History
17. South Africa
18. History
19. Working class > United States > History

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Part I. Power in Theory and Context: 1. Contending theories of labor power; 2. Contextualizing workers' power -- Part II. Employer Strategy and Collective Action: 3. Varieties of firm strategy: monopolization, cartelization, and concentration; 4. Varieties of employer associations: origins, development, and divergence -- Part III. Workers: Outlaws, in the Law and by the Law: 5. Failed incorporation and union response; 6. Varieties of juridification -- Part IV. From Postwar "Golden Quarter-Century" to Post-Cold War Interlude: 7. The "Golden Quarter-Century": revival, containment, or decline?; 8. Union and employer relations after the "Golden Quarter-Century" -- Part V. Collective Action before and in the Global Economic Crisis: 9. From tripartism to global economic crisis; 10. Conclusion: doing the work of crisis without crisis?

Call number

1. JFE 17-465

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Lawrence, Andrew G., 1966-

Title

1. Employer and worker collective action : a comparative study of Germany, South Africa, and the United States / Andrew G. Lawrence.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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1. Cover image

LCCN

1. 2014002759

ISBN

1. 9781107071759 (hardback)
2. 1107071755 (hardback)
3. 9781107417755 (paperback)
4. 1107417759 (paperback)

Research call number

1. JFE 17-465