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Marino Regini

    SAGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY: The Future of Labour Movements
    Uncertain Boundaries
    • Uncertain Boundaries

      The Social and Political Construction of European Economies

      • 180 stránok
      • 7 hodin čítania

      The book explores the evolution of European economies from post-World War II Keynesian policies and welfare state development to the deregulation crisis of the 1980s. The author contends that social and political institutions continue to play a crucial role in shaping economic activities, leading to a new 'micro-social' regulation model. It examines the transition from macro to micro forms of economic regulation, detailing the conditions and characteristics of this emerging pattern in response to changing market dynamics.

      Uncertain Boundaries2006
      3,0
    • After a decade dominated by `neo-liberal′ policies and by increasing managerial pressures towards labour flexibility in industrial relations, the role of labour movements is under challenge. In the light of the experience of the 1980s this volume provides an interdisciplinary reassessment of the traditions and future of collective worker′s action in Western states. Contributors assess the roles of labour movements as actors in the economic system through such mechanisms as collective bargaining, and as actors in the political arena. Labour movements and the institutions in which they are embodied, particularly trade unions, are also examined in the light of the broader social movements from which they originate. Bringing to

      SAGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY: The Future of Labour Movements1992