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Brothers in arms in the European car wars: management-labour pacts in the context of regime competition

Waffenbrüder im europäischen Autokrieg: betriebliche Sozialpakte und Regime-Wettbewerb
[working paper]

Zagelmeyer, Stefan

Corporate Editor
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung

Abstract

"During the 1990s, virtually all major European car companies arrived at company-level collective agreements on employment and competitiveness. In brief, these pacts aim at maintaining or creating jobs and at improving the competitiveness of the plant or company in inter- as well as intracompany ... view more

"During the 1990s, virtually all major European car companies arrived at company-level collective agreements on employment and competitiveness. In brief, these pacts aim at maintaining or creating jobs and at improving the competitiveness of the plant or company in inter- as well as intracompany competition. This paper first presents two approaches to analyse such employment pacts. It then introduces selected cases of company-level employment pacts in the European car industry. The main part of the paper analyses these employment pacts and discusses their implications for labour relations. The author concludes that the employment pacts in the European car industry may not just be seen as examples of concession bargaining, but rather as new, emerging forms of cooperative and consensual labour relations, which are about adjusting the governance of the employment relationship to the imperatives of joint competitive success." [author's abstract]... view less


In den 90er Jahren kam es in praktisch allen europäischen Automobilwerken zum Abschluss von Kollektivvereinbarungen über Beschäftigung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Ziel war die Schaffung oder Sicherung von Arbeitsplätzen und die Verbesserung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Betriebs oder Unternehmens im ... view more

In den 90er Jahren kam es in praktisch allen europäischen Automobilwerken zum Abschluss von Kollektivvereinbarungen über Beschäftigung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Ziel war die Schaffung oder Sicherung von Arbeitsplätzen und die Verbesserung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Betriebs oder Unternehmens im eigenen und gegenüber fremden Konzernen. Der Verfasser stellt zwei Ansätze zur Analyse solcher Pakte vor und behandelt ausgewählte betriebliche Beschäftigungspakte in der europäischen Kraftfahrzeugindustrie. Er analysiert diese Vereinbarungen und diskutiert Implikationen für die Arbeitsbeziehungen. Der Verfasser kommt zu dem Schluss, dass diese Beschäftigungspakte eine neue Form kollektiv-konsensualer Arbeitsbeziehungen darstellen, mit der das Beschäftigungsverhältnis dem Imperativ des gemeinsamen Wettbewerbserfolgs unterworfen wird. (ICEÜbers)... view less

Keywords
employment agreement; social partnership; firm; enterprise; trust; automobile industry; Europe; job security; competitiveness; labor relations

Classification
Economic Sectors
Working Conditions
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations

Method
descriptive study

Document language
English

Publication Year
2000

City
Köln

Page/Pages
23 p.

Series
MPIfG Working Paper, 2

Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/41641

ISSN
1864-4333

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications

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