Since 1974, Portuguese trade unions and their confederations have obtained key roles
within the institutional model of Portuguese democracy. These concern primarily, but not …

This article deals with one of the most distinctive features of the British system of industrial
relations–its voluntarist nature–and focuses on internal divisions within the labor union …

This article examines how Conservative governments restructured public sector in day trial
relations in Britain between 1979 and 1997, and identifies the main components of trade …

This paper discusses the development of labour relations during the 1980s in Western
Europe. It argues that a proper understanding of the different trajectories indifferent countries …

This study broadly assesses the role played by political and institutional factors in the
widespread union crises that occurred in many Western capitalist democracies during the …

This book arises out of a specially commissioned issue of West European Politics marking
the journal's 30th anniversary. It examines the profound changes in the European political …

This chapter concentrates on survey and interview evidence of the extent to which
employers and trade unions have addressed gender discrimination. The mechanisms of …

This article examines the role of the state in industrial relations, which has been highly
neglected in the literature. It examines the nature of the state and proposes a typology of four …

Institutions shape behavior. This is the core argument of the theorists of modern
institutionalism, an argument that has proven clear, parsimonious, and widely applicable for …

During the mid-1960s, the British Labour Party undertook its first attempt to introduce a
statutory national minimum wage as a solution for the problem of low pay in the United …