... years. It begins with an overview of codetermination and its two components: works councils and employee representation on supervisory boards of large enterprises. It then explains how codetermination has made trade unions especially resilient and goes on to assess employers' attitudes toward...

..., including the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Federal Employment Agency), have helped to preserve the political influence of trade unions and employers associations. It compares these and other results with those in other countries and ends by reflecting on the future of the German industrial relations system...

... (both British-based national funding bodies). actors immigration trade union responses to institutional contexts path dependency research methodology trade unions British trade unions capitalism Central European countries colonial immigration coordinated market economy Dutch trade unions...

...This chapter has four objectives. First, it provides an empirical account of the activities of the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) from its founding in 1925 until the early 2000s. Second, it delineates major changes in trade union structure. Of crucial importance in this regard...

...—and then analyzes its principal actors: trade unions and employers associations. It finds the framework sound but the actors are in crisis because of membership losses. The book analyzes reasons behind the losses and the innovative strategies German labor and management have developed in their efforts to reverse...

... in the hopes of jump-starting economic growth, or economic stagnation alongside an evermore severe paternalism, would be to permit society to organize, allow real trade unions to assert the interests of their members, to push up wages and benefits for the unemployed and the poor. economic conditions...

..., now undermined by policies associated with neoliberalism which also transformed Israel’s labor market and employment norms. The chapter ends by outlining the book’s contribution to existing scholarship of trade unions and labor in Israel. Histadrut organized labor Journalists’ Association Koach...

... nongovernmental organizations China labor groups workers' rights trade unions labor unions labor law education unpaid wages The increase in insecurity and informalization of the Chinese workforce described in this volume has not happened without opposition from workers acting independently (see the May...

...In this chapter we outline the way trade unions in Spain have responded to immigration in relation to the questions of class, social rights and race/ethnicity. Spain has seen a quick and systematic increase in immigration since the early 1990s, which has been concentred in sectors with a weaker...

...This chapter examines the responses of UK trade unions to immigrant workers and their role in integrating them into both trade unions and the wider society. In the UK, the dominant strategies and responses have focused on organising immigrant workers and support for the inclusion of immigrant...

... around a particular view of organising is not the way forward. We need to look much more closely at how the nature of the state and projects of social inclusion are framing responses and in terms of facilitating trade union roles in relation to immigration or creating new views and points of development...

... that the forces driving membership trends for German trade unions and employers associations differ and that state support of German industrial relations cannot be held responsible for change in the postwar era. collective bargaining collective bargaining autonomy Tarifautonomie erosion and exhaustion arguments...

...This chapter examines the postwar German trade union movement. Using qualitative analysis, it highlights two trade union movements that emerged in postwar Germany. The first movement appeared in the immediate aftermath of World War II, with industrial unionism as its organizing principle...

... of the interplay between trade unions and employers associations for the future of German industrial relations. It suggests that density trends among employers associations have been of greatest importance in determining the influence of German industrial relations in the postwar era. employers associations...

...This chapter examines the role of trade unions during the Umbrella Movement. One would expect democratic trade unions in Hong Kong to follow in the footsteps of their counterparts in other newly industrialized countries (NICs) and play a key role in the Umbrella Movement. However, trade unions...

...The book explores the question of social inclusion and trade union responses to immigration in the European context, comparing the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research the book focuses on how trade unions - particularly more established...

... re-territorialization can evolve in these transnational workspaces. The case examines an alliance in the meat industry between transnational posted workers, a local civil society organization, and the trade union. From an analytical perspective, the chapter considers these coalitions as examples...

... of these unions from employers, in contrast to the employer-dominated enterprise unions, means that they have more independence when representing labor in the future. All China Federation of Trade Unions ACFTU Earth automobile company Fortune 500 companies Labor Contract Law migrant workers Mingwei Liu...

... this period. From the 1950s through the 1970s, the postwar German industrial relations system flourished and served as an important component of an effective economy and a sound democracy. Trade unions and employers associations embraced “social partnership,” that is, they accepted each other as equal...

...This chapter examines the declining membership of Germany's trade unions and employers associations by conducting a quantitative analysis of unionization rate in the postwar period. Previous models of unionization in Germany focused exclusively on economic and demographic variables; this chapter...