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- Title
Trade unions under changing conditions: the West German experience, 1950-1985.
- Authors
Armingeon, Klaus
- Abstract
The paper addresses the impact which changes in economy, employment structure, and politics have had on West German trade unions in the post-war period. Overall there has been a remarkable stability of union membership and policies. This applies in particular to the very slight effect which business cycles have exerted. In contrast, however, membership developments have been more dependent on changes in the distribution of economic and political power. Unions have not adapted to transformation of the employment structure but the losses of members caused by this has been more or less compensated by gains in shrinking segments of the labour force. Therefore, stability of membership levels has been possible even though adaptation of recruitment strategies has not been successful.
- Subjects
LABOR unions &; international relations; LABOR movement; SOCIAL change; ECONOMIC development; LABOR union members; LABOR policy; BUSINESS cycles
- Publication
European Sociological Review, 1989, Vol 5, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0266-7215
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036499