The paper focuses on the changes that occurred to the architecture of industrial relations in Southern-European countries during the last decade. In particular, the bargaining systems of Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Portugal are compared, with a particular attention to the legislative measures enacted under the influence of international institutions after the 2008 financial and sovereign debt crisis. The theoretical framework, under which the process of transformation is analysed, is the literature on comparative politics as recently reviewed by Thelen. At the same time, the work takes into account the labour law dogmatic category of "inderogability", represented by the couple law-branch agreement outcome of the Fordist class compromise. Recent trends of industrial relations show that such a binomial has been strongly eroded in front of the strengthening of company and plant agreements prerogatives. Therefore, by using a multidisciplinary approach, the paper concludes by arguing that the countries case studies are shifting from an highly regulated pattern to a common "neo-liberal" trajectory, with the asymmetry of power between labour and capital growing in favour of the latter.

Bologna, S. (2016). Liberalizing Industrial Relations in Southern-Europe: Towards the End of a Coordinated and Egalitarian Model. ECONOMIA & LAVORO, L(2), 101-120 [10.7384/84406].

Liberalizing Industrial Relations in Southern-Europe: Towards the End of a Coordinated and Egalitarian Model

BOLOGNA, Silvio
2016-01-01

Abstract

The paper focuses on the changes that occurred to the architecture of industrial relations in Southern-European countries during the last decade. In particular, the bargaining systems of Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Portugal are compared, with a particular attention to the legislative measures enacted under the influence of international institutions after the 2008 financial and sovereign debt crisis. The theoretical framework, under which the process of transformation is analysed, is the literature on comparative politics as recently reviewed by Thelen. At the same time, the work takes into account the labour law dogmatic category of "inderogability", represented by the couple law-branch agreement outcome of the Fordist class compromise. Recent trends of industrial relations show that such a binomial has been strongly eroded in front of the strengthening of company and plant agreements prerogatives. Therefore, by using a multidisciplinary approach, the paper concludes by arguing that the countries case studies are shifting from an highly regulated pattern to a common "neo-liberal" trajectory, with the asymmetry of power between labour and capital growing in favour of the latter.
2016
Bologna, S. (2016). Liberalizing Industrial Relations in Southern-Europe: Towards the End of a Coordinated and Egalitarian Model. ECONOMIA & LAVORO, L(2), 101-120 [10.7384/84406].
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