ISBN:
9781781009574
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 555 p)
,
ill
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Parallel Title:
Available in another form
Parallel Title:
Elektronische Reproduktion von International handbook of trade unions
DDC:
331.88
Keywords:
Gewerkschaft
;
Gewerkschaftspolitik
;
Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft
;
Tarifverhandlungen
;
Welt
;
Labor unions
;
Labor policy
;
International labor activities
;
Comparative industrial relations
;
Labor union members
;
Collective bargaining
;
Wages
;
Arbeitsbedingungen*Einkommen*Fallstudie*Gewerkschaft*Globalisierung*Grossbritanien*Innovation*Lohnpolitik*Mitbestimmung*Produktivität*Streik*USA
;
Gewerkschaften
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Arbeitsbeziehungen
;
Gewerkschaft
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Kollektivverhandlung
;
Gewerkschaft
Abstract:
This Handbook is an authoritative and invaluable reference tool, uniquely analysing the forces governing unionism, union behaviour and union impact from a variety of perspectives, both theoretical and empirical. The 14 chapters are written in an accessible style by acknowledged leading specialists from the fields of economics and industrial relations. They offer a truly international perspective on this important subject
Abstract:
1. Introduction / John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel -- 2. Determinants of trade union membership / Claus Schnabel -- 3. Economic models of union behaviour / Robin Naylor -- 4. Unions, bargaining and strikes / Peter Cramton and Joseph Tracy -- 5. Unions and productivity, financial performance and investment : international evidence / David Metcalf -- 6. Collective bargaining and macroeconomic performance / Robert J. Flanagan -- 7. Changes over time in union relative wage effects in the UK and the USA revisited / David Blanchflower and Alex Bryson -- 8. Unions and the wage structure / David Card, Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell -- 9. Unions and innovation : a survey of the theory and empirical evidence / Naercio Menezes-Filho and John Van Reenen -- 10. Trade unions as political actors / Wolfgang Streeck and Anke Hassel -- 11. Unions and unionism around the world / Jelle Visser -- 12. Recent changes in the industrial relations framework in the UK / John T. Addison and W. Stanley Siebert -- 13. Europeanization of collective bargaining / Dieter Sadowski, Oliver Ludewig and Florian Turk -- 14. Contemporary developments in and challenges to collective bargaining in the United States / John Delancy
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.4337/9781781009574
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