Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945

ISBN-13: 9781349655137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 807 str.

J. Visser; Bernard Ebbinghaus

Opis

The Societies of Europe is an 8-title series of historical data handbooks and accompanying CD-ROM sets, on the development of Europe from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

Recenzje

'...an exceptionally detailed work of reference on trade union membership statistics.' - John Kelly, London School of Economics, British Journal of Industrial Relations

'The work accomplished by Ebbinghaus and Visser is a vast resource...An indispensable reference tool for anyone writing on, or seeking to understand, trade unionism in the different countries of western Europe.' - Richard Hyman, London School of Economics, Transfer

'[A]n extraordinary display of painstaking historical and sociological research.' - Colin Church, European University Institute, Industrial Relations Journal

Spis treści

PART I: INTRODUCTION A Guide to the Handbook A Comparative Profile PART II: COUNTRY PROFILES AND TABLES Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy The Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom PART III: APPENDIX European Union Organizations A Note on the CD-ROM

O autorze

DR BERNARD EBBINGHAUS is Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne. He taught sociology at the University of Mannheim and coordinated, with Jelle Visser, the international project on 'The Development of Trade Unions in Western Europe'. He was a John F. Kennedy Fellow (1999/2000) at the Centre for European Studies (CES), Harvard University.

DR JELLE VISSER is Professor of Empirical Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Director of CESAR, a labour relations research group. He was a visiting researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. Professor Visser is also a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Socieites in Cologne. He has also served as consultant to the OECD and ILO on union statistics.