
The Politics of Industrial Relations
Labor Unions in Spain
Kerstin Hamann(Autor*in)
Routledge (Verlag)
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 14. Oktober 2024
Buch
Softcover
302 Seiten
978-1-032-92290-4 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
As unions in most other industrialized democracies continue to decline, unions in Spain have been able to regain and maintain strength despite unfavorable institutional, political, and economic conditions. The Politics of Industrial Relations provides a comprehensive analysis of Spanish unions from the Franco dictatorship until the present. It builds on industrial relations, comparative politics, and political economy literature to investigate the trajectory of Spanish unions. The book analyzes unions as political actors, that is, their interaction and involvement with governments, political parties, and nationwide policy-making processes to explain why Spanish unions appear in some ways as atypical in West European comparison. The development of Spanish unions and industrial relations is framed in a historical-institutionalist approach while also taking into account globalization and Europeanization processes. Using the case of the Spanish transition to democracy, the book demonstrates that the historical sequencing of institutional reforms in the political and industrial relations arenas holds significant and long-lasting consequences for the nature of unions and labor relations. The book concludes that by understanding unions as political actors, the history of Spanish unionism and industrial relations institutions is more easily accommodated than looking at unions as industrial actors alone.
Comprehensive in its theoretical scope and empirical depth, The Politics of Industrial Relations presents Spain as an anomaly, and thus as a test case, for a multitude of theories developed in the political economy and industrial relations literatures.
Comprehensive in its theoretical scope and empirical depth, The Politics of Industrial Relations presents Spain as an anomaly, and thus as a test case, for a multitude of theories developed in the political economy and industrial relations literatures.
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Sprache
Englisch
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London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Academic, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate
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33 s/w Abbildungen
33 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Gewicht
412 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-92290-4 (9781032922904)
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Kerstin Hamann is Professor of Political Science at the University of Central Florida. Her books include Parties, Elections, and Policy Reforms in Western Europe: Voting for Social Pacts (with John Kelly), Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective (with Bonnie N. Field), and Assessment in Political Science (with Michelle Deardorff and John Ishiyama).
Inhalt
1. Introduction: The Puzzle of Spanish Unions - A Framework for Analysis 2. Workers, the State, and Labor Relations under the Franco Regime 3. Unions and the Politics of Institution Building during the Transition to Democracy 4. Unions, Parties, and Industrial Relations during the Consolidation of Democracy 5. The Politics of Economic Adjustment under Gonzalez' Socialist Government 6. Socialist Policies, Union Decline, and Renewal Strategies 7. Labor Unions and Aznar's Popular Government: Regaining a Political Voice? 8. Unions and Zapatero's Socialist Government: Cooperation and Confrontation 9. Conclusion: Unions, Industrial Relations, and Politics in Spain