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  • Technological Change, Rationalisation and Industrial Relations

    Edited by Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek, Marino Regini ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry
    Originally published in 1986 the first part of this book outlines some of the general problems of technological change and labour relations. It discusses the politics of rationalisation and of industrialisation in the car industry by examining case studies of Volkswagen British Leyland and FIAT. The impact developments exert on trade unions in the UK, Germany and Italy is discussed simultaneously. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Economic Crisis, Trade Unions and the State

    Edited by Otto Jacobi, Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiek, Marino Regini ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Trade Unions
    Originally published in 1986, this book analyses the impact of the changing economic and political climate on trade unions in Europe. The first part of the book deals with general issues, and the succeeding parts look at developments in the UK, Italy and the former West Germany. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Africa and the North

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    Edited by Ulf Engel, Gorm Rye Olsen ...
    Series series New International Relations
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  • Renegotiating the Welfare State

    Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation

    Edited by Gerhard Lehmbruch, Frans van Waarden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate ... Read more

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  • The Hegemony of Growth

    The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm

    by Matthias Schmelzer ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of the European Union

    by Erik Jones, Anand Menon ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is an authoritative, one-volume, and independent treatment of the history, functioning and nature of the European integration. Written by a selection of leading scholars. It covers the major institutions, policies, and events in the history of integration, whilst also providing a guide to the major theoretical approaches that have been used to study it over time. By bringing together such a ... Read more

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  • Conflict and Change in EU Budgetary Politics

    by Johannes Lindner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
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  • The Times They Are Changing?

    Crisis and the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve ...
    Series Book 12 - Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
    The Times They Are Changing? Crisis and the Welfare State presents a series of readings from international policy researchers that examine the effects of the recent financial crisis on welfare states around the world.Provides comprehensive and in depth coverage of changes in welfare states as a result of the financial crisisReveals how the financial crisis is changing our perception of the welfare ... Read more

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  • Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation

    European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s

    by Lucio Baccaro, Chris Howell ...
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    by Cathie Jo Martin, Duane Swank ...
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