The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy

Edited by Susan Hayter

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Abstract: This book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today’s global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labour standards at risk. This book examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. It focuses on a commonly neglected side of the story and demonstrates the positive contribution that collective bargaining can make to both economic and social goals. The various contributions examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. They highlight the numerous resulting challenges and the critically important role that governments play in rebalancing bargaining power in a global economy. The chapters are written in an accessible style and deal with practical subjects, including employment security, workplace change and productivity, and working time.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781849809764
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Susan Hayter

Ch 2 Negotiating Employment Security: Innovations and Derogations

Steffen Lehndorff and Thomas Haipeter

Ch 3 Negotiating Working Time in Fragmented Labour Markets: Realizing the Promise of ‘Regulated Flexibility’

Sangheon Lee and Deirdre McCann

Ch 4 Bargaining for Training: Converging or Diverging Interests?

Jason Heyes and Helen Rainbird

Ch 5 Workplace Change and Productivity: Does Employee Voice Make a Difference?

Fathi Fakhfakh, Virginie Pérotin and Andrew Robinson

Ch 6 Mind the Gap: Collective Bargaining and Wage Inequality

Susan Hayter and Bradley Weinberg

Ch 7 Illustrating the Gap: Collective Bargaining and Income Distribution in Chile

Gerhard Reinecke and María Elena Valenzuela

Ch 8 Collective Bargaining in Transition: Measuring the Effects of Collective Voice in China

Chang Hee Lee and Mingwei Liu

Ch 9 The Economic Impact of Collective Bargaining Coverage

Franz Traxler and Bernd Brandl

Ch 10 New Roles for Unions and Collective Bargaining Post the Implosion of Wall Street Capitalism

Richard Freeman

Ch 11 Globalizing Industrial Relations: What Role for International Framework Agreements?

Konstantinos Papadakis

Ch 12 Conclusion

Susan Hayter

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