Exporting the German Work Model to Central and Eastern Europe

Martin Krzywdzinski

Chapter 6 in Globalizing Employment Relations, 2011, pp 99-116 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The economic structure of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries is increasingly dominated by foreign companies, with German companies being the most important industrial investors. The production and work models practised by German companies are thus extremely important for the region. Are these companies producing high-quality products in CEE, and placing an emphasis on skilled and well-paid work, or is the CEE being exploited as a low-wage periphery, characterized by ‘hire and fire’ and low-skilled work? For stakeholders in Germany, the issue of whether companies are attempting to transfer the ‘German model’, or whether they are relocating abroad as a means of escaping this model, is also relevant.

Keywords: Trade Union; Work Model; German Company; Work Organization; Supervisory Board (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230306813_7

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