Heroic defeats: the politics of job loss

Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory to generate testable propositions about when these situations will result in industrial conflict, Professor Golden illustrates the theory...

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Main Author: Golden, Miriam 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1997
Series:Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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Summary:Heroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss. Using simple game theory to generate testable propositions about when these situations will result in industrial conflict, Professor Golden illustrates the theory in a range of situations between 1950 and 1985 in Japan, Italy, and Britain. Additionally, the author shows how the theory explains why strikes over job loss almost never occur in postwar unionised firms in the United States. With its blend of rational choice and comparative politics, Heroic Defeats is the first systematic attempt to account for industrial conflict or its absence in situations of mass job loss. This book should be of interest to political scientists, sociologists, economists, and students of labour and industrial relations, as well as specialists in European and Japanese history
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 195 pages)
ISBN:9780511625657
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511625657

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