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Employer and worker collective action : a comparative study of Germany, South Africa, and the United States / Andrew G. Lawrence

Publisher	(New York, NY : Cambridge University Press)
Year	2014
Authors	*Lawrence, Andrew G. 1966- author

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00122564		Cambridge Core All Books (電子ブック)	9781107785359

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	1 online resource (xv, 356 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Jan 2016) This book compares sources of worker and employer power in Germany, South Africa, and the United States in order to identify the sources of comparative US decline in union power and to more precisely analyze the nature of labor-movement power. It finds that this power is not confined to allied parties, union confederations, or strikes, but rather consists of the capacity to autonomously translate power from one context to the next. By combining their product, labor market, and labor law advantages through their dominant employers' associations, leading firms are able to impose constraints on labor's free collective bargaining regionally and nationally, defeating employer interests that are more amenable to labor in the process. Through an examination of these patterns of interest organization, the book shows, however, that initial employer advantages prove to be contingent and unstable and that employers are forced to cede to more far-reaching demands of increasingly organized workers HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107785359
Subjects	LCSH:Working class -- Germany -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Working class -- South Africa -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Working class -- United States -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Labor unions -- Germany -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Labor unions -- South Africa -- History All Subject Search LCSH:Labor unions -- United States -- History All Subject Search
Classification	LCC:HD8451 DC23:331.88
ID	8000073535
ISBN	9781107785359