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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.

European Works Councils as Risk Communities: The Case of General Motors

Urheber*in: Fetzer, Thomas

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Umfang
Seite(n): 289-308
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
European Journal of Industrial Relations, 14(3)

Thema
European works councils; General Motors; international trade unionism; solidarity;

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fetzer, Thomas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2008

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-222999
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Beteiligte

  • Fetzer, Thomas

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  • 2008

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