Strikes around the world : Case-studies of 15 countries.

Are strikes going out of fashion or are they an inevitable feature of working life? This is a longstanding debate. The much-proclaimed 'withering away of the strike' in the 1950s was quickly overturned by the 'resurgence of class conflict' in the late 1960s and 1970s. The period...

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Main Author: Van der Velden, Sjaak
Other Authors: Dribbusch, Heiner, Lyddon, Dave, Vandaele, Kurt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
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520 |a Are strikes going out of fashion or are they an inevitable feature of working life? This is a longstanding debate. The much-proclaimed 'withering away of the strike' in the 1950s was quickly overturned by the 'resurgence of class conflict' in the late 1960s and 1970s. The period since then has been characterized as one of 'labor quiescence'. Commentators again predict the strike's demise, at least in the former heartlands of capitalism. Patterns of employment are constantly changing and strike activity reflects this. The secular decline of manufacturing in mature industrialized economies is of. 
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505 0 |a Strikes around the world, 1968-2005; Contents; General glossary; Editors' foreword; Introduction; Strike statistics and the problems of international comparison; A racially divided class Strikes in South Africa, 1973-2004; A century of general strikes Strikes in Argentina; Public sector militancy, feminization, and employer aggression Trends in strikes, lockouts, and wildcats in Canada from 1960 to 2004; Strikes in a state corporatist system Mexico; Approaching extinction? The decline of strikes in the United States, 1960-2005; Militant unionism in Korea. 
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