CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Scepanovic, Vera |
|---|---|
| Title | The Industrial Relations Trap: Labour Weakness in European Peripheries, Spain and Poland Compared |
| Summary | Studies of post-socialist labour have been dominated by path-dependency models, identifying communist heritage as the prime cause of labour weakness. This paper explores the limits of explanatory power of these models, by comparing developments in industrial relations systems of Spain and Poland after transition to democracy. Despite their different backgrounds, organised labour in Spain and Poland has broadly followed the same path to decline and transformation. I argue that such remarkable similarities should be traced to a set of similar exogenous pressures: changing logic of the late 20th century capitalist production, economic transnationalisation and declining strength of national economic institutions. To the extent that Spanish and Polish trade unions have succeeded in converting their initial strength and political capital into institutionalised mechanisms of labour inclusion, these institutions remain precarious, and are characterised by flexibility and fragmentation. |
| Supervisor | Bohle, Dorothee |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/scepanovic_vera.pdf |
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