The challenge of modernisation: towards a new paradigm for trade unions in Europe?

Ulrich Mückenberger, Conny Stroh and Rainer Zoll
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Conny Stroh: Ulrich Mückenberger is professor of labour law at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Politik, Hamburg
Rainer Zoll: Universität Bremen

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 1995, vol. 1, issue 1, 14-30

Abstract: The European trade union movement is in the throes of major upheaval as a result of changes in technology, the economy, and the socio-cultural environment. The authors argue that it is high time the trade unions moved on to enter a next phase of modernity. The modernisation required entails the combined operation of "rationalisation, domestication, individualisation and differentiation" . These four concepts are used not just to describe the processes underway ; it is argued that they can also, if the opportunities contained in them are identified and harnessed, constitute guides to action. An analysis of these four concepts, applied to the situation of the trade unions, can thus assist in the search for ways out of the crisis that is currently affecting the unions in their orientations, organisation and policies.

Date: 1995
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