Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation by Lucio Baccaro, C... - 9781107018723

Trajectories of Neoliberal TransformationEuropean Industrial Relations Since the 1970s\nAuthor(s): Lucio Baccaro, Chris Howell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107018723, 978-1107018723\nSynopsis\nThis book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different country and including quantitative analysis. The book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of what has happened to the institutions that regulate the labor market, as well as the relations between employers, unions, and states in Western Europe since the collapse of the long postwar boom. The primary .