Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s
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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 offers a comprehensive
description and analysis of what has happened to the institutions that
regulate the labor market, as well as the relations between employers,
unions, and states in Western Europe since the collapse of the long
postwar boom. The primary theoretical goal of this book is to provide a
critical examination of some of the central claims of comparative
political economy, particularly those involving the role and resilience
of national institutions in regulating and managing capitalist political
economies.
