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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: power to dismiss
    sub title: trade unions and the regulation of job security in Western Europe
  title info:
    title: Trade unions and the regulation of job security in Western Europe
  name:
    name part: Emmenegger, Patrick.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2014
    edition: First edition, impression 1.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 346 pages)
  abstract: Emmenegger analyses the historical development of job security regulations in Western Europe from the establishment of freedom of contract in the nineteenth century until the heyday of two-tier labour market reforms in the 2000s. Job security regulations restrict managerial capacity to dismiss employees or use new forms of employment (e.g. temporary work) when hiring new workers.
  table of contents: 2. Towards a new theory of the politics of job security regulations. Literature review. Job security regulations by consensus: The varieties of capitalism thesis [and] Conservative social policy: The social Catholicism thesis [and] Contested regulations: The power resources thesis. -- Beyond cross-national differences: Towards a more nuanced theory of the politics of job security regulations. Trade unions are the driving force behind the extension of job security regulations [and] The paradoxical effects of early trade union strength [and] Temporal variations in power resources: Three periods of labour movement strength [and] Second-best solutions: Trade unions and two-tier labour market reforms.
  table of contents: 3. Setting up a regulatory regime. Before World War I: Freedom of contract in a period of business strength -- The Interwar Period: The 1920 Works Council Act and the rise of Fascism -- World War II and its aftermath: The new role of public authorities -- Job security regulations after two World Wars.
  table of contents: 4. A 'Red Wave' over Europe. A 'Red Wave' sweeps over Europe -- Little effective protection against dismissal -- The reform of job security regulations in the late 1960s and early 1970s. France: The May 1968 rupture [and] Italy: The Hot Autumn [and] Germany: The quest for co-determination [and] The Netherlands: Wages rather than job security [and] Switzerland: Too weak to enforce significant change [and] Sweden: From contract to law [and] Denmark: The non-event [and] Great Britain: Legislation rather than contestation. -- Job security regulations after the 'Red Wave'.
  table of contents: 5. The age of dualization. Trade unions in the age of dualization -- The reform of job security regulations since the early 1980s. Great Britain: The Thatcher Revolution [and] Italy: No choice but dualization? [and] France: Fighting the inevitable? [and] Germany: Dualization in a coordinated market economy [and] Sweden: Dualization in a social democratic welfare state [and] The Netherlands Flexicurity in a two-tier labour market [and] Denmark and Switzerland: Closing gaps but keeping the level of protection low. -- Job security regulations in the age of dualization.
  table of contents: 6. Power and institutions. The historical development of job security regulations in Western Europe: Compararive discussion of findings. Setting up a new regulatory regime [and] Facing the 'Red Wave' [and] The age of dualization. -- Beyond cross-national differences in power resources -- Dualization forever?
  note: Patrick Emmenegger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Job security
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Job security
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Employees
    topic: Dismissal of
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Sécurité d'emploi
    geographic: Europe
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Labor
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Labor & Industrial Relations
  subject:
    topic: Employees
    topic: Dismissal of
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    topic: Job security
  subject:
    topic: Job security
    topic: Law and legislation
  subject:
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    geographic: Europa (geografie)
  subject:
    topic: Business & Economics
  subject:
    topic: Labor & Workers' Economics
  classification: HF5549.5.D55
  classification: 331.3
  classification: 15.70
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014
      edition: First edition.
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    record content source: NLGGC
    record creation date: 141219
    record change date: 20260319160331.3
    record identifier: in00005711455
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng