Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the Twenty-First Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 February 2017
- ISBN 9780198790471
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages398 pages
- Size 241x162x28 mm
- Weight 716 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume examines and assesses the contemporary relationships between old left-of-centre parties and trade unions in twelve countries that have been democracies since at least the mid- to late-1940s.
MoreLong description:
Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy. Historically, examples of close relationships between the two abound. But perhaps the best known because it was supposedly the most intimate and politically important is the relationship between left-of-centre parties and trade unions. Whether rooted in a shared history, culture and ideology or more a 'marriage of convenience', it is widely believed that their relationship helped socialist, social democratic, and labour parties win power and ensured the working class achieved huge gains in terms of full employment, the welfare state and labour market regulation in the post war period. In recent decades, however, it has been widely argued that the links between left-of-centre parties and trade unions have declined as their collaboration has become less mutually beneficial, not least as a consequence of structural changes in the economy and labour market.
This volume interrogates, qualifies, and even challenges that widespread assumption. Based on a brand new dataset, including organizational data gathered by a cross-national team of experts, it uncovers and explores what turns out to be considerable variation in the strength of contemporary organizational links between left-of-centre parties and unions in twelve different countries that have been democracies since at least the mid -to late-1940's. Testing a series of hypotheses on the importance and the impact of particular political systems and socio-economic factors, and on the costs and benefits for both parties and unions, detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis suggests that left-of-centre party-trade union links are stronger where trade unions are larger, denser, and more unified and where parties are less able to rely on the state to finance their organizational activities and electoral campaigns. Traditional partners that still have fairly strong links with each other seem to have greater incentives than others to maintain those links. Moreover, it remains the case that the links between parties and unions matter in policy terms.
That cross-national variations exist has in fact been suggestedelsewhere (Hyman and Gumbrell-McCormick, 2010), butin Left-of Centre Parties and Trade Unions in the TwentyFirst Century the editors Allern and Bale, plus a string ofcontributing country experts, make a solid and creativecontribution to actually show it.
Table of Contents:
The Relationship between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions
Mapping Party-Trade Union Relationships in Contemporary Democracies
The Australian Labor Party and the Trade Unions: 'til Death Do Us Part'?
A Dying Embrace? Interlocked Party-union Directorates in Austria's Cartel Democracy
Finland: Strong Party-union Links under Challenge
Left-wing Parties and Trade Unions in France
Growing Apart? Trade Unions and Centre-left Parties in Germany
Parties and Labour Federations in Israel
Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade Unions in Italy: From Party Dominance to a Dialogue of the Deaf
The Legacy of Pillarization: Trade Union Confederations and Political Parties in the Netherlands
Two Branches of the Same Tree? Party-union Links in Sweden in the 21st Century
Strong Ties between Independent Organizations. Unions and Political Parties in Switzerland
No Place Else To Go: The Labour Party and the Trade Unions in the UK
Still So Happy Together? The Relationship between Labour Unions and the Democratic Party
The Relationship between Left-of-Centre Parties and Trade unions in Contemporary Democracies
Variations in Party-union Relationships: Explanations and Implications
