Screen LibrarySocial partnership at work : workplace relations in post-unification Germany /
"This book, originally published in 1999, provided the first comparative, in-depth analysis of workplace relations in east and west Germany. The collapse of communism and the ensuing process of reform means that East Germany provides a particularly interesting case, having experienced rapid and...
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Taylor and Francis,
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| Publisher Address: | Milton Park, Abingdon : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©1999 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge Library Editions: The German Economy ;
volume 4 |
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| Summary: |
"This book, originally published in 1999, provided the first comparative, in-depth analysis of workplace relations in east and west Germany. The collapse of communism and the ensuing process of reform means that East Germany provides a particularly interesting case, having experienced rapid and radical political and economic transformation, and representing an historically outstanding experiment of the shifting of an entire social system onto a different society. This book examines the success of the institutional transfer of west German labour organisations into east Germany workplaces and addresses central questions such as : Can capitalist labour institutions be imposed on a former communist workforce? What conditions determine the success or failure of these institutions? Can 'social partnership/ between capital and labour be learned? "--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-245) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781351855068 1351855069 |
| Index Number: | HD8460 |
| CLC: | F249.516.6 |
| Call Number: | F249.516.6/F858 |
| Contents: |
Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Tables and figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Workplace relations in the former socialist GDR; Part I The institutional setting: Transformation of workplace relations in east Germany; 3 Transforming socialist workplace relations: Co-operation or subservience?; 4 Social partnership in the east German clothing industry; 5 Transformation at enterprise level: The case of Bodywear; Part II The cultural embeddedness of new labour institutions in the east 6 Workers' attitudes in post-socialist east Germany7 Methodology of the union membership surveys in the east and west German clothing industry; 8 Collective commitment in the east and west; Part III Explaining post-socialist participation in collective activities; 9 Theories of participation in collective activities; 10 Determinants of union membership participation in the east and west; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index |