Unions and Economic Crisis: Britain, West Germany, and Sweden - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 004331094X ISBN 13: 9780043310946

Publisher: Unwin Hyman, 1984

Synopsis

First published in 1984. This book represents a major study of union responses to the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Abjuring governmental or managerial outlooks, it argues that unions, as representatives of essential producer groups, would be central to the renegotiation of the economic world. The work also stresses the importance of situating union responses to the crisis within the socio-historical evolution of their political economies during the rise and decline of the post-war economic boom. The Social Democratic affiliation of unions in Britain, West Germany and Sweden make them particularly comparable. This title will be of interest to students of politics and economics.

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About the Author:

Peter A. Gourevitch is Professor of Political Science and founding Dean at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of "Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises" and former coeditor of "International Organization." James Shinn Visiting Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he teaches courses on technology and foreign policy. Previously he worked in the U.S. State Department's East Asia Bureau and was later a general manager, entrepreneur, and outside director for fifteen years in the high tech industry at various firms including Dialogic, which he cofounded.

Andrew Martin grew up in Yorkshire. After qualifying as a barrister, he won The Spectator Young Writer of the Year Award, 1988. Since, he has written for The Guardian, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Independent and Granta, among many other publications. His columns have appeared in the Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman. His Jim Stringer novels - railway thrillers - have been published by Faber and Faber since 2002.

George Ross is Morris Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University. His recent books are Brave New World of European Labor (with Andrew Martin, 1999), Jacques Delors and European Integration (1995) and Searching for the New France (edited with James Hollifield, 1991).

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About this edition

• Publisher: Unwin Hyman
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 004331094X
• ISBN 13: 9780043310946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1