1. Institutional Stability Pays: German Industrial Relations under Pressure

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contents ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction Up Against the Fallen Wall: The Crisis of Social Partnership in Unified Germany 1
6. I. Unifying Germany: Social Partnership Moves East
7. 1. Institutional Stability Pays: German Industrial Relations under Pressure 15
8. 2. The Dilemmas of Diffusion: Institutional Transfer and the Remaking of Vocational Training Practices in Eastern Germany 33
9. 3. Active Labor Market Policy and German Unification: The Role of Employment and Training Companies 69
10. 4. Unions in the New Lander: Evidence for the Urgency of Reform 87
11. 5. Unifying Germany: Crisis, Conflict, and Social Partnership in the East 113
12. II. The Political Economy of Crisis and Reform
13. 6. Institutions Challenged: German Unification, Policy Errors, and The "Siren Song" of Deregulation 139
14. 7. Political Adaptation to Growing Labor Market Segmentation 157
15. 8. The Limits of German Manufacturing Flexibility 177
16. 9. Renegotiating the German Model: Labor-Management Relations in the New Germany 207
17. 10. The Second Coming of the Bonn Republic 227
18. Conclusion: Uncertain Outcomes of Conflict and Negotiation 255
19. Index 263