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European Works Councils as Risk Communities: The Case of General Motors
■ The European works council (EWC) at General Motors is widely regarded as an outstanding example of cross-border trade union cooperation. This article reconstructs its development as a European trade union `risk community', which since the mid-1990s has faced unprecedented challenges to workers' interests as a result of intra-European competition for investment and GM's strategy of corporate globalization. To a limited extent, the EWC offered a European solution to local and national problems, but cross-border cooperation has remained fragile and issue-specific, and has implied a Eurocentric notion of trade union internationalism.
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Seite(n): 289-308
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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European Journal of Industrial Relations, 14(3)
- Subject
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European works councils; General Motors; international trade unionism; solidarity;
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fetzer, Thomas
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Veröffentlichung
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2008
- DOI
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-222999
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Associated
- Fetzer, Thomas
Time of origin
- 2008
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