Labour politics in small open democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand, and Uruguay

✍ Scribed by Paul G. Buchanan, Kate Nicholls

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls explore the political and economic fortunes of organized labor in five small open democracies between 1975 and 2000. Of particular interest is the role of labor market institutions, organizational histories, and trade union ideologies in shaping outcomes under conditions of economic liberalization. The book includes a theoretical and methodological introduction, followed by individual discussions of Australia and Chile, and New Zealand and Uruguay, grouped a cross-regional pairs, and Ireland as an extra-regional and atypical case.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Preface......Page 16
Small countries as exemplars of policy reform......Page 24
Problems of analytic coupling: Case selection, dichotomous pairings and small sample comparisons......Page 27
Labour politics as an analytic lens......Page 30
Conceptualising unions as political actors: Organised labour and the labour relations regime......Page 39
Summary......Page 46
Introduction......Page 48
Australia......Page 50
Political insertion......Page 54
Institutional conditioners......Page 60
Agent-principal issues......Page 66
Relations with business......Page 70
Macroeconomic and social indicators......Page 76
Chile......Page 78
Political insertion......Page 82
Institutional conditioners......Page 95
Agent-principal issues......Page 100
Relations with business......Page 103
Macroeconomic and social indicators......Page 108
Conclusion......Page 110
Introduction......Page 112
New Zealand......Page 113
Political insertion......Page 115
Institutional conditioners......Page 119
Agent-principal issues......Page 129
Relations with business......Page 134
Macroeconomic and social indicators......Page 138
Summary......Page 139
Uruguay......Page 141
Political insertion......Page 142
Institutional conditioners......Page 154
Agent-principal issues......Page 160
Relations with business......Page 168
Macroeconomic and social indicators......Page 174
Summary......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 177
Introduction......Page 178
National, regional and global determinants of the Irish labour relations regime......Page 180
Political insertion......Page 186
Institutional conditioners......Page 192
Agent-principal issues......Page 198
Relations with business......Page 202
Macroeconomic and social indicators......Page 208
Conclusion......Page 210
5 Conclusion: Explaining Cross National Variance in Labour Politics......Page 212
Notes......Page 223
Bibliography......Page 249
B......Page 267
C......Page 268
I......Page 269
L......Page 270
N......Page 271
S......Page 272
U......Page 273
W......Page 274