Chris Howell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627444 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Howell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Howell |
| SIGNATURE | HOWELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gaby Ramia, Governing Social Protection in the Long Term
Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation
This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different country and including quantitative analysis. The book…
Regulating class in the neoliberal era
The article argues that, in the last three decades, states have become more preoccupied with, and interventionist in, the regulation of class relations in order to facilitate a broad liberalization of employment relations institutions. Drawing on insights from Regulation theorists and Karl Polanyi, the article examines the market-making role of states during periods of transition from one growth regime to another. The more prominent role of the s…
Rethinking Institutions and Institutional Change in European Industrial Relations
This article traces the process of institutional change in industrial relations in Britain, France and Sweden over the last quarter-century in order to identify the mechanisms and forms of institutional change. These three cases demonstrate a high degree of institutional plasticity, and a greater convergence in industrial relations than comparisons of national institutions have tended to suggest. These findings in turn suggest the need to rethink…
A Common Neoliberal Trajectory
Based on quantitative indicators for fifteen advanced countries between 1974 and 2005, and case studies of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Ireland, this article analyzes the trajectory of institutional change in the industrial relations systems of advanced capitalist societies, with a focus on Western Europe. In contrast to current comparative political economy scholarship, which emphasizes the resilience of national insti…
Lifting the curse of dimensionality
The Transformation of French Industrial Relations
Despite continued social protest, something quite fundamental has changed in the regulation of class relations in France. This article explores two paradoxes of this transformation. First, a dense network of institutions of social dialogue and worker representation has become implanted in French firms at the same time as trade union strength has declined. Second, the transformation has involved a relaxation of centralized labor market regulation …
The State after Statism
Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite at Work
Varieties of Capitalism
Wage Politics in Britain
This text provides a comprehensive and in-depth account of the history of incomes policies in post-war Britain, detailing in particular attempts at securing wage restraint pursued by each government up to 1979, and how and why incomes policies were abandoned thereafter
Facing up to Thatcherism
1. NALGO: What Kind of Trade Union? 2. NALGO 1905 to 1978 3. The Advent of Thatcherism 4. The Squeeze Tightens 5. Thatcherites Versus the Trade Union Movement 6. Privatization and the Retreat from National Bargaining 7. Storms: Financial, Climatic, and Industrial 8. Shake it All About: Into the 1990s 9. NALGO's Last Year 10. In UNISON
From New Labour to No Labour? The Industrial Relations Project of the Blair Government
This paper addresses the question of whether there is, any longer, a distinctive Left form of industrial relations. It does so through an examination of what the metamorphosis of the British Labour Party has meant for industrial relations policy, and hence the role of organized labor in the British political economy. An examination of the Blair government's record thus far suggests that it has attempted, albeit in a half-hearted way, to construct…
The Brave New World of European Labor
The brave new world of European labor
"European trade unions played a central role in building a "European model of society"--Negotiated labor-management relations, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation - which reached its pinnacle in the earlier post-World War II era. More recently, this European "model" and the unions place in it have been challenged by lower growth, rising unemployment, accelerated European integration, and neo-libe…
Europe
The Lost Perspective? Trade Unions between Ideology and Social Action in the New Europe
Restructuring British Public Sector Industrial Relations
This article examines how Conservative governments restructured public sector in day trial relations in Britain between 1979 and 1997, and identifies the main components of trade union strategic response to change. It argues that Conservative policy is important for its impact upon trade union strategy and practice, and that public sector unions constitute the leading edge of trade union strategic modernization in Britain
Heroic Defeats
Working for the Union. British Trade Union Officers
Regulating Labor
Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge
Turning To The State
The Politics of French Trade Unionism
Trade Unions and the State
La Grande-Bretagne connait un declin du pouvoir des syndicats. L'A. presente les affirmations theoriques soulignant les explications pluralistes sur les relations industrielles et les critiques que rencontrent cette ideologie. Les ressources du marche du travail, politiques et strategiques, sont respectivement etudiees dans les periodes de pouvoir et de declin des syndicats. L'impact de l'Etat sur la strategie du mouvement travailliste, sa struct…
A Common Neoliberal Trajectory
Based on quantitative indicators for fifteen advanced countries between 1974 and 2005, and case studies of France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Ireland, this article analyzes the trajectory of institutional change in the industrial relations systems of advanced capitalist societies, with a focus on Western Europe. In contrast to current comparative political economy scholarship, which emphasizes the resilience of national insti…
Varieties of Capitalism
Regulating class in the neoliberal era
The article argues that, in the last three decades, states have become more preoccupied with, and interventionist in, the regulation of class relations in order to facilitate a broad liberalization of employment relations institutions. Drawing on insights from Regulation theorists and Karl Polanyi, the article examines the market-making role of states during periods of transition from one growth regime to another. The more prominent role of the s…
The Transformation of French Industrial Relations
Despite continued social protest, something quite fundamental has changed in the regulation of class relations in France. This article explores two paradoxes of this transformation. First, a dense network of institutions of social dialogue and worker representation has become implanted in French firms at the same time as trade union strength has declined. Second, the transformation has involved a relaxation of centralized labor market regulation …
Trade Unions and the State
La Grande-Bretagne connait un declin du pouvoir des syndicats. L'A. presente les affirmations theoriques soulignant les explications pluralistes sur les relations industrielles et les critiques que rencontrent cette ideologie. Les ressources du marche du travail, politiques et strategiques, sont respectivement etudiees dans les periodes de pouvoir et de declin des syndicats. L'impact de l'Etat sur la strategie du mouvement travailliste, sa struct…
The Dilemmas of Post-Fordism
The Contradictions of French Industrial Relations Reform
In 1982-83 the French Socialist government passed a series of laws known collectively as the Auroux Laws, after the then minister of labor, Jean Auroux.' Their purpose was the wholesale reform of the French system of industrial relations. Collectively, the package of legislation aimed to strengthen trade unions, encourage collective bargaining, give new powers to works councils, allow workers to express themselves in their place of work, and regu…
From New Labour to No Labour? The Industrial Relations Project of the Blair Government
This paper addresses the question of whether there is, any longer, a distinctive Left form of industrial relations. It does so through an examination of what the metamorphosis of the British Labour Party has meant for industrial relations policy, and hence the role of organized labor in the British political economy. An examination of the Blair government's record thus far suggests that it has attempted, albeit in a half-hearted way, to construct…
Restructuring British Public Sector Industrial Relations
This article examines how Conservative governments restructured public sector in day trial relations in Britain between 1979 and 1997, and identifies the main components of trade union strategic response to change. It argues that Conservative policy is important for its impact upon trade union strategy and practice, and that public sector unions constitute the leading edge of trade union strategic modernization in Britain
Turning To The State
Regulating Labor
In May and June of 1968 a dramatic wave of strikes paralyzed France, making industrial relations reform a key item on the government agenda. French trade unions seemed due for a golden age of growth and importance. Today, however, trade unions are weaker in France than in any other advanced capitalist country. How did such exceptional militancy give way to equally remarkable quiescence? To answer this question, Chris Howell examines the reform pr…
The Contradictions of French Industrial Relations Reform
In 1982-83 the French Socialist government passed a series of laws known collectively as the Auroux Laws, after the then minister of labor, Jean Auroux.' Their purpose was the wholesale reform of the French system of industrial relations. Collectively, the package of legislation aimed to strengthen trade unions, encourage collective bargaining, give new powers to works councils, allow workers to express themselves in their place of work, and regu…
The Dilemmas of Post-Fordism
The New Politics of British Trade Unionism
Labor Parties in Postindustrial Societies.Frances Fox Piven
Turning To The State
The Politics of French Trade Unionism
Trade Unions and the State
La Grande-Bretagne connait un declin du pouvoir des syndicats. L'A. presente les affirmations theoriques soulignant les explications pluralistes sur les relations industrielles et les critiques que rencontrent cette ideologie. Les ressources du marche du travail, politiques et strategiques, sont respectivement etudiees dans les periodes de pouvoir et de declin des syndicats. L'impact de l'Etat sur la strategie du mouvement travailliste, sa struct…
Working for the Union. British Trade Union Officers
Regulating Labor
Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge
Europe
The Lost Perspective? Trade Unions between Ideology and Social Action in the New Europe
Restructuring British Public Sector Industrial Relations
This article examines how Conservative governments restructured public sector in day trial relations in Britain between 1979 and 1997, and identifies the main components of trade union strategic response to change. It argues that Conservative policy is important for its impact upon trade union strategy and practice, and that public sector unions constitute the leading edge of trade union strategic modernization in Britain
Heroic Defeats
The Brave New World of European Labor
The brave new world of European labor
"European trade unions played a central role in building a "European model of society"--Negotiated labor-management relations, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation - which reached its pinnacle in the earlier post-World War II era. More recently, this European "model" and the unions place in it have been challenged by lower growth, rising unemployment, accelerated European integration, and neo-libe…
From New Labour to No Labour? The Industrial Relations Project of the Blair Government
This paper addresses the question of whether there is, any longer, a distinctive Left form of industrial relations. It does so through an examination of what the metamorphosis of the British Labour Party has meant for industrial relations policy, and hence the role of organized labor in the British political economy. An examination of the Blair government's record thus far suggests that it has attempted, albeit in a half-hearted way, to construct…
Wage Politics in Britain
This text provides a comprehensive and in-depth account of the history of incomes policies in post-war Britain, detailing in particular attempts at securing wage restraint pursued by each government up to 1979, and how and why incomes policies were abandoned thereafter
Facing up to Thatcherism
1. NALGO: What Kind of Trade Union? 2. NALGO 1905 to 1978 3. The Advent of Thatcherism 4. The Squeeze Tightens 5. Thatcherites Versus the Trade Union Movement 6. Privatization and the Retreat from National Bargaining 7. Storms: Financial, Climatic, and Industrial 8. Shake it All About: Into the 1990s 9. NALGO's Last Year 10. In UNISON
Varieties of Capitalism
Liberte, Egalite, and Fraternite at Work
The State after Statism
Lifting the curse of dimensionality
The Transformation of French Industrial Relations
Despite continued social protest, something quite fundamental has changed in the regulation of class relations in France. This article explores two paradoxes of this transformation. First, a dense network of institutions of social dialogue and worker representation has become implanted in French firms at the same time as trade union strength has declined. Second, the transformation has involved a relaxation of centralized labor market regulation …
Political science (28 works) · Economics (22 works) · Law (21 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (16 works) · Political economy (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Industrial Relations (11 works) · Industrial relations (10 works) · Economic system (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works)