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1 online resource (xvi, 356 pages) |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Epigraph -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of acronyms -- General -- Germany -- South Africa -- United States -- I. Power in Theory and Context -- 1 Contending Theories of Labor Power -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Worker Power: Lost in Isolation, Found in Translation -- 1.3 Why Size and Structure Aren't Everything -- 1.4 Mind the Gap: Labor and Democratization -- 1.5 Method, Sources, and Case Selection Rationale -- 2 Contextualizing Workers' Power -- 2.1 Introduction: Varieties of Labor Power and Logics of Collective Action -- U.S. Workers -- All-Powerful or Always Powerless? -- 2.2 Power-Resource and Employer-Centered Approaches -- Employer-Centered Approaches -- 2.3 Faces of Power in the Politics of Production -- 2.4 Varieties versus Uniformity of Capitalism: The Firm in Global Context -- 2.5 Conclusion: Collective Action at the Present Conjuncture -- II. Employer Strategy and Collective Action -- 3 Varieties of Firm Strategy: Monopolization, Cartelization, Concentration -- 3.1 Introduction: Trusts versus Cartels in Theory and Practice -- 3.2 U.S. Steel Trusts versus Cartels -- 3.3 German Steel Trusts versus Cartels -- 3.4 South African Mining -- Are Diamond Cartels Forever? -- In Gold We Trust -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Critical Junctures and Counterfactual Outcomes -- 4 Varieties of Employer Associations: Origins, Development, and Divergence -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 German Employers' Associations, from Kaiserreich to Postwar Reconstruction -- 4.3 U.S. Employer Associations -- 4.4 South African Employer Associations -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Critical Junctures and Counterfactual Outcomes -- III. Workers: Outlaws, in the Law, and by the Law -- 5 Failed Incorporation and Union Response -- 5.1 Introduction: From Labor Exclusion to Ambiguous Inclusion |
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5.2 Codetermination in the German Workplace between the Wars -- Firm-Level Works Councils, 1916-1934 -- Racial Divisions in the German Workplace in the 1930s to 1940s -- 5.3 South African Unionization, from Its Origins to the Apartheid Era -- 5.4 Shop-Floor Contention in U.S. Manufacturing before the NLRA -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Critical Junctures and Counterfactual Outcomes -- 6 Varieties of Juridification -- 6.1 Introduction: Labor Law and Juridification -- Juridification in Theory -- 6.2 Germany -- 6.3 The United States -- The U.S. Shift from Despotic to Hegemonic Workplace Regimes -- U.S. Labor Law: Juridification or Ossification? -- 6.4 Canada -- 6.5 South Africa -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Critical Junctures and Counterfactual Outcomes -- IV. From Postwar "Golden Quarter-Century" to Post-Cold War Interlude -- 7 The "Golden Quarter-Century": Revival, Containment, or Decline? -- 7.1 Introduction: Cold War Stabilizations? -- 7.2 German Codetermination, from Adoption to Adaptation -- 7.3 South African Social Movement Unionism's Rise and Fall -- 7.4 U.S. Business Unionism from the 1940s to the 1960s -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Critical Junctures and Counterfactual Outcomes -- 8 Union and Employer Relations after the "Golden Quarter-Century" -- 8.1 Introduction: Increasing Exit and Voice, Diminishing Loyalty -- 8.2 Workplace Rights and Contestation in Germany -- 8.3 Revolts of the Unrepresented in South Africa -- The Limits to Anglo's Expansion in Industry and Influence -- Post-1994 South African Austerity, Shop-Floor Discontent, and Weakening Party Hegemony -- 8.4 Dissociations of Representation from Struggle in the United States -- U.S. Unions: At a Standstill Since the 1980s? -- 8.5 Conclusion -- V. Collective Action Before and in the Global Economic Crisis -- 9 From Tripartism to Global Economic Crisis |
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9.1 Introduction: The Absence of U.S. Tripartism in Comparative Perspective -- 9.2 Failed Tripartism in South Africa -- The 2007 Public Service Strike -- The 2010 Strike -- The 2012 Miners' Strike and Massacre -- 9.3 Failed Tripartism in Germany -- 9.4 Conclusion: Beyond Tripartite Bargaining -- 10 Conclusion: Doing the Work of Crisis without Crisis? -- 10.1 The Argument and Way Forward -- 10.2 What Is to Be Done? -- U.S. Reforms -- Germany -- South Africa: A Common Concern with BIG Schemes -- Bibliography -- Primary Materials and Sources Consulted -- I. Archives -- Germany -- South Africa -- II. Newspapers -- III. Magazines -- Index |
| Summary |
"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 U.S. 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Working class -- Germany -- History
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Working class -- South Africa -- History
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Working class -- United States -- History
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Labor unions -- Germany -- History
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Labor unions -- South Africa -- History
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Labor unions -- United States -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Labor unions
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Working class
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Germany
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South Africa
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107785359 |
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1107785359 |
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9781316004999 |
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1316004996 |
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9781316009499 |
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1316009491 |
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