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Hydrogen corporatism and working time reduction: Union strategies in the transformation of German primary steel manufacturing

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  • Schoppengerd, Stefan

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Industrial trade unions in Europe and North America often struggle to develop a coherent strategy on climate change and overcoming fossil fuel production patterns. Trade union policy in the German steel industry is an interesting example of this: the "green" restructuring is firmly in favour, as it is easily compatible with positions on maintaining production sites. However, the hydrogen technology required for this brings with it new contradictions. At the same time, the IG Metall trade union recently held a collective bargaining round on reducing working hours in the socio-ecological transformation. This working paper analyses this situation by reconstructing the fundamental structures of industrial relations, the coming hydrogen economy and working time policy.

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  • Schoppengerd, Stefan, 2024. "Hydrogen corporatism and working time reduction: Union strategies in the transformation of German primary steel manufacturing," IPE Working Papers 230-2024, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE).
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:ipewps:290386
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    Keywords

    Steel; Hydrogen; Working Time Policy; Just Transition; Socio-Ecological Transformation;
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    JEL classification:

    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
    • J59 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Other
    • L50 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - General
    • L61 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - Metals and Metal Products; Cement; Glass; Ceramics
    • O14 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation

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