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Suggested Readings
On Economic Changes
Fred Block, The Origins of International Economic Disorder (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).
Andrew Gamble and Paul Walton, Capitalism in Crisis (London: Macmillan, 1976).
Robert Lekachman, The Age of Keynes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975).
Ernest Mandel, The Second Slump (London: New Left, 1978).
T. P. Hill, Profits and Rates of Return (Paris: OECD, 1979).
On Unions Generally
George Ross, Andrew Martin, Peter Gourevitch, Peter Lange, et al., European Trade Union Responses to Economic Crisis, 2 vols. (London: Allen and Unwin, 1981–82).
Colin Crouch and Allessandro Pizzorno, eds., The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Europe, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1978).
OECD, Collective Bargaining and Government Policies in 10 OECD Countries (Paris: OECD, 1979).
Jack Hayward, ed., Trade Unions and Politics in Western Europe (London: Frank Cass, 1980).
Trilateral Commission (George Lodge, B. C. Roberts, et al.), Report of the Task Force on Industrial Relations (New York: Trilateral Commission, 1978).
On International Union Activity
Robert J. Flanagan and Arnold R. Weber, Bargaining Without Boundaries (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).
Herbert Northrup and Richard Rowan, Multinational Collective Bargaining Attempts (Philadelphia: Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania, 1979).
On The US
Business Week, “Reindustrializing America,” June 30, 1980.
Manuel Castells, The Economic Crisis and American Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980).
Mike Davis, “Why the US Working Class is Different,” in New Left Review #123 and “The Legacy of the CIO,” in New Left Review #124.
James O'Connor, The Fiscal Crisis of the State (New York: St. Martins, 1973).
Lester Thurow, The Zero Sum Society (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980).
Graham Wilson, Unions in American National Politics (New York: St. Martins, 1979).
On The UK
Stephen Bornstein and Peter Gourevitch, in Ross, Martin, et al.
Frank Blackaby, ed., Deindustrialization (London: Heinemann, 1979).
Richard Caves and Lawrence Krause, eds., Britain's Economic Performance (Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1980).
Ian Gough, The Political Economy of the Welfare State (London: Macmillan, 1980).
Leo Panitch, Social Democracy and Industrial Militancy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976).
On West Germany
Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund, Aktionsprogramm 1979 (Dusseldorf: DGB, 1979).
Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund, Entwurf: Grundsatzprogramm des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund (Dusseldorf: DGB, 1979).
Gerhard Leminsky and Bernd Otto, Politik und Programmatik des Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund (Köln: Bund Verlag, 1974).
Andrei Markovits and Chris Allen, in Ross, Martin, et al.
Dieter Schuster, Die deutsche Werkschaftbewegung (Dusseldorf: DGB, 1974).
On Sweden
Walter Korpi, The Working Class and Welfare Capitalism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978).
Andrew Martin, “Is Democratic Control of Capitalist Societies Possible?,” in Leon Lindberg, ed., Stress and Contradiction In Modern Capitalism (Lexington, D.C.: Heath, 1975).
Andrew Martin, “Dynamics of Change in a Keynesian Political Economy: The Swedish Case and its Implications,” in Charles Maier and Leon Lindberg, eds., The Politics and Sociology of Global Inflation (Washington: Brookings, forthcoming).
Andrew Martin, in Ross, Martin, et al.
Rudolf Meidner, Employee Investment Funds (London: Allen and Unwin, 1978).
On France
Alain Cotta, La France et l'impératif mondial (Paris: PUF, 1978).
Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, La crise (Paris: CFDT, 1976).
Confédération Générale du Travail, Bilan de l'industrie Française (Paris: CGT, 1978).
Anicet le Pors, Marianne à l'encan (Paris: Editions Sociales, 1980).
George Ross, Workers and Communists in France (Berkeley: University of California, 1981).
George Ross, in Ross, Martin, et al.
Christian Stoffaës, La Grande Menace Industrielle (Paris: Livre de Pôche, 1979).
On Italy
Georges Couffignal, Les Syndicats italiens et la politique (Grenoble: PU de Grenoble, 1979).
Daniel Horowitz, The Italian Labor Movement (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963).
Peter Lange and Maurizio Vaniccelli, in Ross, Martin, et al.
Allessandro Pizzorno, et al., Lotte operaie e sindicato in Italia (Bologna: Mulino, 1978).
Hugues Portelli, Luttes ouvrières en Italie: de 1960 à 1976 (Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1976).
Bruno Trentin, Da sfruttati a produttori (Bari: De Donato, 1977).
Bruno Trentin, Il sindacato dei consigli (Rome: Ed. Riuniti, 1980).
Peter Weitz, “Labor and Politics in a Divided Movement, The Italian Case,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review (1975).
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Ross, G. What is progressive about unions?. Theor Soc 10, 609–643 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00240395
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