• Introduzione: La partecipazione tra impresa, sindacato e risorse umane. Tendenze internazionali ed esperienza tedesca, Luigi Saba


• Introduction: Participation of Business, Unions, and Human Resources. International Trends and the German Experience


• German Unions and Industrial Relations in the Early '9Os: Challenges and Possible Solutions, Martin Baethge, Harald Wolf
* A Profile of the German System of Industrial Relations
* Challenges for the System in the '80s: Political, Economic and Technological Changes with Institutional Continuity
* Labour Market Crisis and the Unions' Struggle for Shorter Work Hours
* The New Dynamics of Rationalization: Departure from Tayloristic and Fordistic Principles, towards "New Concept of Production" and "Systemic Rationalization"
* Transition in Work Performance Policies: New Approaches in Collective Bargaining
* Changes of Company and Staff Structures: Alteration in the Factory Political Arena and the Threat to the Unions Principle of Solidarity
* Human Resources Development: A Continuing Strength of the Unions
* Preliminary Balance: Increasing Tendency towards Single Company Representation. A Danger to Union Solidarity
* A New Situation with Uncertain Perspectives at the Beginning of the '90s: The IR between German Unification and European Integration
* References

• New Work Structures and Industrial Relations in the German Automobile Industry, Martin Kuhlmann, Constanze Kurz
* The Development of the Structure of Work in High Tech Areas
* The Development of Work Structures in Low Tech Areas of Production
* Successful Reform of Production with Increasing Segmentation. The Complexity of Workplace Politics in the Automobile Industry
* New Challenges for Trade Unions and Works Councils in the Light of Lean Production. Or, how much Regulation Can the New Production Model Take?
* References

• Manufacturing Strategies and the Reorganization of Work in the (West) German Electronics Industry: Their Impact on Industrial Relations, Ulrich Voskamp, Volker Wittke, Martin Kuhlmann
* Traditional Industrial Relations in the West German Electronics Industry
* Transformation of Rationalization Strategies in the '80s and '90s
* A New Kind of Skilled Worker: Challenge for Plant Level Work Policy and Managerial Style
* Active Influence of the Organization of Work from Below
* Problems with "Problem Solvers"
* The Impact on Industrial Relations. Problem Solvers and Work Place Interest Representation: Rationalization Winners on a Collision Course


• Industrial Relations and New Work Organization in the German Chemical Industry, Uwe Neumann
* Traditional Forms of Industrial Relations in the German Chemical Industry
* New Challenges for the Chemical Industry and Their Effects on the Organization of Work
* Towards a Transformation of Industrial Relations in the Chemical Industry?

• A New Type of Expert? Reorganization of Work, Professional Perspectives and Industrial Relations in the Engineering Services, Ulf Kadritzke
* Introductory Remark: The Limits of the Subject and where they Are Crossed
* What Is Service Labor, what Are Engineering Services?
* Changing Enterprise Politics in Theory and Reality: The Contradictions of High Trust Organisation
* Qualified Service Labor as Controlled Autonomy: The Limits of Trust
* The Inhuman Side of Modem Enterprise: Time, Labor Intensity and Performance Appraisal
* The Dilemma of the Expert: Technical Services Labor between Profession, Enterprise and Market
* The Future of Industrial Relations in Germany: Problems of Union Interest Representation in the Segment of Higly Qualified Employees
* References

Contributi: Martin Baethge, Ulf Kadritzke, Martin Kulmann, Costanze Kurt, Uwe Neumann, Luigi Saba, Ulrich Voskamp, Volker Wittke, Harald Wolf

Collana: Isvet-Istituto per gli Studi sullo Sviluppo Economico e il Progesso Tecnico - Documenti

Argomenti: Economia europea e internazionale - Diritto del lavoro, relazioni industriali - Sociologia economica, del lavoro e delle organizzazioni