Economic Restructuring and Emerging Patterns of Industrial Relations

Stephen R. Sleigh, Editor
City University of New York

This book's essays analyze innovative responses by unions, corporations and governments to job loss caused by economic restructuring, drawing on examples from Western Europe and the U.S.

Topics

1. Economic Development and Industrial Relations in a Small-Firm Economy: The Experience of Metalworkers in Emilia-Romagna, Italy - Bruce Herman, Garment Industry Development Organization
2. Managing Local Development: Lessons from Spain - Michael Barzelay, Harvard University
3. Worker Democracy in Socialist France - Bernard E. Brown, City University of New York
4. International Competition and the Organization of Production: The Study Action Team Process at Trico Products - Peter Lazes, Cornell University
5. Collaborative Restructuring Efforts: Textile and Apparel Labor-Management Innovation Network, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania - Robert Coy, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Saul Rubenstein and Michael Shay, Participative Systems, Inc.
6. Labor and Industrial Strategies in the State of Michigan - Michael Schippani, State of Michigan
7. Applying Skills-Based Automation Through Participatory Management: The Center for Applied Technology - Frank Emspak, University of Wisconsin-Madison
8. Social Democratic Trade Unions and Politics: Can the End of the Social Democratic Trade Unions be the Beginning of a New Kind of Social Democratic Politics? - Charles F. Sabel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9. Training and the New Industrial Relations: A Strategic Role for Unions - Wolfgang Streeck, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

200 pp. 1992
$19 paper ISBN 0-88099-131-3 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-131-5.

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