01437pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002100040245007300061260000900134300001400143362000800157520101300165650002101178650001801199700002801217773003401245180718b2003   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aThelen, Kathleen  aThe paradox of globalization: labour relations in Germany and beyond  c2003  ap.859-80.  aOct  aWhat is the impact of globalization on labor in the advanced industrial countries? One body of work holds that globalization pushes all countries toward neoliberalism; another argues that the impact of globalization will vary according to prevailing institutional arrangements and predicts continued divergence between the so-called liberal and coordinated market economies. In an analysis of the German case that combines case-study and formal-modeling methods, we refute the first, neoliberal convergence theory, showing that globalization in some ways empowers unions by rendering employers extremely vulnerable to industrial unrest. Furthermore, we suggest some revisions to the second, varieties of capitalism, perspective. We show that, in Germany, employers' increased vulnerability to conflict has shored up centralized bargaining arrangements in the short run, but at the same time, has also set in motion feedback effects that are deeply destablizing to the system in the longer term. - Reproduced.  aLabour relations  aGlobalization  aWijnbergen, Christa Van  aComparative Political Studies