The comparative political economy of industrial relations

Chiara Benassi, Lisa Dorigatti and Arianna Tassinari

Chapter 15 in Handbook of Comparative Political Economy, 2025, pp 267-285 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter discusses the comparative political economy (CPE) of industrial relations by focusing both on the role and form of industrial relations institutions across national political economies and on the contribution of the discipline of industrial relations to CPE debates. The first part of the chapter outlines similarities and differences in industrial relations systems across the US and European countries and explores how the institutions of industrial relations evolved over time in the shift from Fordism to post-Fordism. The identification of common trajectories of liberalisation but persisting differences are central to the ‘convergence-divergence’ debate which has animated the field over the last three decades. The remainder of this chapter illustrates the role that the main CPE theoretical approaches assign to the institutions of industrial relations in capitalist economies, as well as the contribution of the comparative and multi-level approach of the discipline of industrial relations to the comparative study of contemporary capitalism.

Keywords: Comparative; Industrial relations; Collective bargaining; Comparative political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035327775
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