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Industrial Relations and Politics: Some Reflections

In: Industrial Relations in International Perspective

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  • Peter Gourevitch
  • Peter Lange
  • Andrew Martin

Abstract

None of the social science disciplines has played a smaller role in the study of industrial relations than political science. While the essays in this volume show the importance of sociology, social psychology and other fields, there is a noticeable absence of studies concerned with the interaction between politics and industrial relations. The ‘behavioural revolution’ in political science (especially opinion surveys analysed through sophisticated statistical techniques) has given us a great deal of knowledge about worker attitudes toward many subjects. We still know very little, though, about such matters as the impact of labour market conditions upon political behaviour, the way in which workers’ individual priorities are processed by labour organizations and the operation of labour organizations in the political system. It is striking how little attention political scientists have devoted to the role of labour unions in the domestic policy process despite the widespread belief that unions are (too?) powerful.

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  • Peter Gourevitch & Peter Lange & Andrew Martin, 1981. "Industrial Relations and Politics: Some Reflections," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter B. Doeringer & Peter Gourevitch & Peter Lange & Andrew Martin (ed.), Industrial Relations in International Perspective, chapter 11, pages 401-416, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-04442-9_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-04442-9_11
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    1. Leila Simona TALANI, 2014. "The Political Economy of Italy in the EMU: What Went Wrong?," Journal of Economics and Political Economy, KSP Journals, vol. 1(2), pages 133-149, December.

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