The State and the Labor Market
In the two decades before the mid-1970s, macroeconomic policies in Western Europe were frequently accompanied by policies of direct wage restraint in the pursuit of acceptable levels of employment, inflation, and international competitiveness. The same period witnessed a proliferation of social welf...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | Springer Studies in Work and Industry
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction
- 1 Labor Market Restructuring in Europe and the United States: The Search for Flexibility
- II. Government Policy and the Labor Market: Country Studies
- 2 Government Policy and the Labor Market: The Case of the United Kingdom
- 3 Fissure and Discontinuity in U.S. Labor Management Relations
- 4 The Restructuring of the Labor Market, the Labor Force, and the Nature of Employment Relations in the United States in the 1980s
- 5 Employment Policy, the State and the Unions in the Federal Republic of Germany
- 6 Reregulating the Labor Market amid an Economic and Political Crisis: Spain, 1975–1986
- 7 The State, the Unions, and the Labor Market: The Italian Case, 1969–1985
- 8 State Regulation, Enterprise Behavior and the Labor Market in Hungary, 1968–1983
- III. Youth, Antidiscrimination, and Working-Time Policies
- 9 Youth Interventions, Job Substitution, and Trade Union Policy in Great Britain, 1976–1986
- 10 The Reagan Administration and the Regulation of Labor: The Curious Case of Affirmative Action
- 11 Work-Sharing Public Policy in France, 1981–1986
- 12 Part-Time Employment: A Response to Economic Crisis?
- IV. Conclusion
- 13 The State and the Labor Market: An Evaluation