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Regulation, Power and Scale: 'Reworking' Capital-Labour Relations in German SMEs

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  • Christian Berndt

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This paper is concerned with recent changes in the way capital-labour relations are regulated in german smes. By investigating 28 firm case-studies in the ruhr area, it is argued, first, that capital-labour relations in germany are getting downscaled and decentralised, profoundly changing the traditional power geometry between capital and labour; second, that the regulatory landscape is being 'reworked' in terms favourable to capital during a period in which the latter is in the ascendancy in the labour market; and, third, that there is a peculiar spatial dimension to the rearticulation of power relations and core institutions of the german model.

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  • Christian Berndt, 2000. "Regulation, Power and Scale: 'Reworking' Capital-Labour Relations in German SMEs," Working Papers wp157, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbr:cbrwps:wp157
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    capital-labour relations; smes; germany; regulation;
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    JEL classification:

    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
    • J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
    • J53 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Labor-Management Relations; Industrial Jurisprudence

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