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100			_aThelen, Kathleen
245			_aThe paradox of globalization: labour relations in Germany and beyond
260			_c2003
300			_ap.859-80.
362			_aOct
520			_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.
650			_aLabour relations
650			_aGlobalization
700			_aWijnbergen, Christa Van
773			_aComparative Political Studies
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