Strikes around the world, 1968-2005 : case-studies of 15 countries / Sjaak Van Der Velden ... [et al.]
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- Amsterdam : Aksant, c2007
- 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 9789052602851
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- Lockouts 14 I Strike data 15 I Explanations 16 I Figures on strikes and lockouts per
- indicator and per country, 196o-200oo5 19
- Strike statistics and the problems of international comparison 24
- DAVE LYDDON
- Thresholds 26 I Main indicators 28 1 Other technical considerations 33 I
- Comparison 35
- A racially divided class Strikes in South Africa, 1973-2004 40
- WESSEL VISSER
- Trade union development 41 I Industrial relations system 45 1 A brief overview of
- strike and lockout legislation 47 I Notes on industrial dispute data collection 49 1 A
- quantitative overview of strike activity 5o I A qualitative overview of strike activity 54 I
- Conclusion 57 I
- A century of general strikes Strikes in Argentina 61
- NIcoLAs IRIGO CARRERA
- Strike statistics 62 I Strikes from 1955 to 1976 63 1 A 'modern' Argentina 65 1
- Strikes during the military government (1976-83) 67 I Strikes since the i980s
- (1984-93) 68 I Strikes and politics: general strikes (1984-2002) 70 I Strikes from
- 1994 to 2006 73 I The main features of strikes 77
- Public sector militancy, feminization, and employer aggression Trends in strikes, lockouts,
- and wildcats in Canada from 196o to 2004 86
- LINDA BRISKIN
- Industrial relations system 87 I A profile of trade unions in Canada 90 I Strikes,
- lockouts, and wildcats, 1960-2004 92 1 Emerging trends 97 I Conclusion o03
- Strikes in a state corporatist system Mexico 114
- FRANCISCO ZAPATA SCHAFFELD
- Industrial relations system 115 I Unions, labor confederations and the political
- system 117 I The development of strike activity in the twentieth century 121
- Approaching extinction? The decline of strikes in the United States, 1960-2005 133
- JOSEPH A. MCCARTIN
- Industrial relations system 134 I Unions in the United States 137 I Economic and
- demographic changes and the us workforce 138 1 Patterns in work stoppages,
- 1947-2004 140 1 Explaining the decline of the strike 142 1 Conclusion 148
- Militant unionism in Korea 155
- BYOUNG-HOON LEE
- History of industrial relations in Korea 155 1 Institutional regulation of strike
- action 16o I Trends of strikes 163 I Conclusion: comparative implications 168
- Strikes and lockouts in the Antipodes Neo-liberal convergence in Australia
- and New Zealand 173
- CHRIS BRIGGS
- From arbitration to neo-liberalism: industrial relations reform in Australia and New
- Zealand 173 I The Australian and New Zealand trade union movements 177 I
- Economic developments: crisis, restructuring and boom 179 I Dispute trends: strikes
- down, lockouts up! 18o I A qualitative overview on the development of strike
- activity 185 I Conclusion 19o
- From the seventies strike wave to the first cyber-strike in the twenty-first century Strike activity
- and labour unrest in Belgium 196
- KURT VANDAELE
- Belgian strike behaviour an ambiguous case? 196 I Industrial relations system and
- collective bargaining 197 I The regulation of industrial conflict 198 1 A split labour
- movement, union growth and weak articulation 199 I Some notes on strike
- statistics 201 1 From a strike wave to many short and smaller strikes 202 I Shifts,
- trends and pivotal strikes 207 I Conclusion 216
- The persistence of labour unrest Strikes in Denmark, 1969-2005 222
- PETER BIRKE
- Industrial relations in Denmark 223 I A quantitative perspective: the withering away
- of social peace 226 1 Major events: mass strikes and wildcats, 1969-2005 228
- Conclusions 237
- Strikes in France Strong social eruptions and a weak tradition of collective bargaining 243
- STEPHEN BOUQUIN
- The particularity of the French situation 243 I Strike statistics in France 248 1
- A qualitative analysis of changes in social conflict 254 I Conclusions 259
- Industrial action in a low-strike country Strikes in Germany 1968-2005 267
- HEINER DRIBBUSCH
- The industrial relations framework 268 I The quantitative picture 271 I Why the low
- level of strikes? 277 I Shifts, trends and pivotal strikes 278 I Prospects 286
- Strikes behind the dykes Netherlands, 1965-2005 298
- SJAAK VAN DER VELDEN
- The institutional setting 300 1 A statistical overview 300 I The postwar system of
- labour relations 302 I Workers bring the system to its knees, 1960-73 305 I Capital
- on the counterattack, 1973-79 307 I Labour strikes back, 1979-82 308 I The 'polder
- moder, 1982-2004 310 j The beginning of a new millennium 313 I Forty years of
- labour relations: a review 314
- From blue-collar wildcats in the 1970S to public sector resistance at the turn of
- a new millennium Strikes in Sweden 1970-2005 321
- CHRISTER TH6RNQVIST
- Strikes and the industrial relations system 322 j The most important trade unions
- and their employers' counterparts 324 I Strike statistics and a quantitative
- overview 325 I Important strikes and trends: a qualitative overview 328 I
- Concluding discussion 334
- From strike wave to strike drought The United Kingdom, 13968-2005 339
- DAVE LYDDON
- Labour market and economic developments 340 I Trade unions 342 I Industrial
- relations system and strike legislation 343 ) Strike statistics and the effect of strike
- tactics and strike pay 345 I The collapse in strikes in the 198os 350 I Strikes under
- 'New Labour' 356 I Conclusion 358
- Comprehending divergence in strike activity Employers' offensives, government interventions
- and union responses 366
- HEINER DRIBBUSCH AND KURT VANDAELE
- Examining strike volumes 367 I Structural change: capitalist restructuring and
- transformation 369 I All workers on the defensive? 371 I Institutional setting and
- government intervention 373 I Sorting countries by union security 375 ) Union and
- employer militancy 377 1 Secular decline or a long wave of labour unrest? 378.
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- Van der Velden, Sjaak
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