POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Federal Labour Court, Craft Unionism, Industrial Unionism
23 Nov 2012
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Kk: 2 types postwar settlements: labour included + labour excluded (analytic types) Northern pattern (labour inclu, uk + ger) + southern pattern (labour exclu fr + it) Labour inclu: high rate unionisation, single trade union confederation which can discip workers, single soc democ/labour party in party sys which has enough poli power to form gov on its own. Uk: tradition of craft unionism (skill specific), single peak assoc in labour (trade union. Congress) that does not have organisational capacity to discip rank + file workers, collective bargaining not directly regulated by state. Both trade unions in ea/part 20th cent, had radical commitment built into trade union constit both supp nationalisation of indus. Ger soc democ party gave up commitment in 1958. Signal: spd beg"g think what it needed to do in order to form gov in its own in ger poli. Most ea/yrs postwar settlement wger: poli dom by party of centre-right (christian democ union)
