The Transformation of Industrial Relations in Eastern Germany

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ID3341976
AutoresUlrich Jürgens (0000-0002-7704-2490, Cornell University), Larissa Klinzing (Cornell University), Lowell Turner (Cornell University)
Ano1993
Volume46
Fascículo2
Páginas229
Data de publicação1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIndustrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X
EditoraJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2524870
OpenAlexW4234593814
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas14

Citing case studies based on interviews they conducted in 1991 and 1992 with labor representatives and managers at six eastern German manufacturing firms, the authors argue that the future could hold either vigor and growth or stagnation and permanent second-class status for the economy and labor movement in eastern Germany, depending largely on actor strategy and choice. The rapid spread of privatization and open markets is tending to undermine unions' influence, on the one hand; but on the other hand, institutional transfer from former West Germany (especially of codetermination law and centralized, regional-level collective bargaining) is giving unions and works councils increased possibilities for leverage

Business · Collective bargaining · Economic geography · Economic history · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · German · Labour economics · Leverage (statistics) · Management · Market economy · Political science · Transformation (genetics) · West germany · European history and politics · Industrial relations · Labor Movements and Unions · Social Policy and Reform Studies