Industrial Relations and European State Traditions
Colin Crouch
Abstract
For more than a century of development, the industrial relations systems of Western European countries grew in very diverse and changing ways. The forms they adopted can be mapped against a set of basic types, and this study moves between historical detail and theoretical typology in order to capture the complexity of that mapping. The book traces the development of trade unions, organized employers, the state's role, and patterns of industrial conflict in 15 countries. It concludes by linking contemporary industrial relations systems to a longue durŽe of relations between states and societies ... More
For more than a century of development, the industrial relations systems of Western European countries grew in very diverse and changing ways. The forms they adopted can be mapped against a set of basic types, and this study moves between historical detail and theoretical typology in order to capture the complexity of that mapping. The book traces the development of trade unions, organized employers, the state's role, and patterns of industrial conflict in 15 countries. It concludes by linking contemporary industrial relations systems to a longue durŽe of relations between states and societies reaching back to the Reformation.
Keywords:
employer organizations,
industrial conflict,
industrial relations,
state,
state traditions,
trade unions,
Western Europe
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1994 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198279747 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 |
DOI:10.1093/0198279744.001.0001 |
