Strike action to save the life of a plant is followed by its ‘honourable death’: the conflict at AEG in Nuremberg

Ingrid Artus
Additional contact information
Ingrid Artus: Research assistant to the Professor of Sociology at the Technische Universität, Munich

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 2006, vol. 12, issue 4, 563-575

Abstract: In early 2006, the workers of the Electrolux AEG factory in Nuremberg went on strike against the relocation of production to eastern Europe. The 43-day strike received a huge amount of support and solidarity at regional, national and international level. In the end, the union agreed to a compromise, obtaining relatively high severance payments, but consenting to the closure of the plant. This article retraces the development of the conflict, analyses the ‘resources of solidarity’ and tries to evaluate its outcome in a regional and international perspective.

Keywords: relocation; strike action; globalisation; shareholder value; European Works Council (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/102425890601200407 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:treure:v:12:y:2006:i:4:p:563-575

DOI: 10.1177/102425890601200407

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().