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Decline or transformation? Change in industrial conflict and its challenges

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  • Lorenzo Bordogna

    (Professor of Sociology of Organisation at the University of Brescia)

  • Gian Primo Cella

    (Professor of Economic Sociology and Chair of the Department of Social and Political Studies at the University of Milan)

Abstract

This article begins with a quantitative analysis of post-World War II strike activity in a group of European countries and the United States. The analysis highlights two important changes. First, over the past two decades, and particularly during the 1990s, there was a significant decrease in strike activity in the countries surveyed (with the notable exception of Denmark). Secondly, there has been a strong trend towards the so-called tertiarisation of conflict. This raises major problems for the measurement, analysis and regulation of strike activity, the strength of tertiary conflicts being based not on the number of days lost or the number of strikers involved, but on the extent of harm caused to the users of services. The impact of tertiary conflict varies from one country to another, in line with the different national regulatory mechanisms, national institutions and national styles of industrial relations.

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  • Lorenzo Bordogna & Gian Primo Cella, 2002. "Decline or transformation? Change in industrial conflict and its challenges," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 8(4), pages 585-607, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:8:y:2002:i:4:p:585-607
    DOI: 10.1177/102425890200800401
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    1. Oscar Molina & Oriol Barranco, 2016. "Trade union strategies to enhance strike effectiveness in Italy and Spain," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 22(3), pages 383-399, August.
    2. Kurt Vandaele, 2016. "Interpreting strike activity in western Europe in the past 20 years: the labour repertoire under pressure," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 22(3), pages 277-294, August.
    3. Heiner Dribbusch, 2016. "Organizing through conflict: exploring the relationship between strikes and union membership in Germany," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 22(3), pages 347-365, August.
    4. Maria da Paz Campos Lima & Antonio Martín Artiles, 2013. "Youth voice(s) in EU countries and social movements in southern Europe," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 19(3), pages 345-364, August.
    5. Jesper Hamark, 2022. "Strikes and lockouts: The need to separate labour conflicts," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 43(4), pages 1891-1910, November.
    6. Steen Scheuer & Flemming Ibsen & Laust Høgedahl, 2016. "Strikes in the public sector in Denmark – assessing the economic gains and losses of collective action," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 22(3), pages 367-382, August.

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