Ende des Abwärtstrends? Zur Entwicklung des Streikvolumens in Westeuropa seit Beginn der Weltwirtschaftskrise

Kurt Vandaele

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2014, vol. 67, issue 5, 345-352

Abstract: Social mobilisation and unrest have been gaining momentum around the world recently. However, at first glance, there has been no general surge in the volume of strikes in Western Europe since the outbreak of the Great Recession. How can this be explained? First of all, the article points to a data problem. In Southern Europe, where a high number of general strikes take place, public data on more recent strikes are not available. At the same time, a relative increase in political mass strikes can be observed outside Southern Europe, particularly within the public sector. This suggests that the de facto strike volume has remained stable or even has increased since the beginning of the Great Recession. Secondly, industry-wide strikes are not central to the new social protest cycle; they belong to the contention repertoire of industrial unionism and are traditionally associated with the bargaining cycle, particularly in Scandinavia and in traditionally less-‘strike-prone’ countries like Germany.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2014-5-345

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