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Trade Unionism and the State: Some Recent European Developments

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Most discussions of the relationship between trade unionism and the state — and in particular those analyses which employ the notions of corporatism or of political exchange — focus on the national linkages between unions and governments. Social relations within the workplace are, from this perspective, far removed from the domain of politics. Reciprocally, students of shop-floor industrial relations typically see little reason to consider the state as a relevant object of enquiry.

Paper presented to a conference of the Association d’Economie Politique, Montreal, 23–24 October 1987, Syndicalisme et Societé: Rapports Nouveaux.

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    Richard Hyman (Professor of Industrial Relations)

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Hyman, R. (1989). Trade Unionism and the State: Some Recent European Developments. In: The Political Economy of Industrial Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19665-4_9

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