Before the crisis, in the crisis, and beyond: the upheaval of collective bargaining in Germany

Lehndorff, Steffen

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“…In Greece, the TINA scenario (Gerodimos and Karyotis ) was also promoted as “memorandum or default” (Lyrintzis ) by the two major parties which ruled Greece since the mid‐1970s—Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and New Democracy. But also a second cleavage seems to be attenuated, because German social partners have worked closely together since the beginning of the crisis, in what has been described as “crisis corporatism” (Lehndorff ; Urban ; see also Herzog‐Stein, Horn, and Stein ).…”

Section: The Public Construction Of Understandings and Assessments Ofmentioning

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Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account on Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis

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The economic crisis following the financial meltdown in 2007 had disparate impacts for citizens of the southern and northern Eurozone member states. In this study, we analyze public debates in Germany and Greece, two countries that have attracted global attention during the crisis, through a political claims analysis based on newspaper articles published between 2005 and 2014. The article makes use of multiple correspondence analysis to detect the patterns governing the discursive construction of the European financial and economic crisis. Our findings corroborate the expected differences between the Greek and German debates in regard to core issues and assessments. However, the de-alignment of political cleavages in both countries is notable and stresses seemingly an underlying mainstreaming process that limits the diversity of crisis-related claims.Keywords: Claims-Making Analysis, Europe, Economic Crisis, Great Recession, Discourse Communities, Discourse Analysis, Crisis Acknowledgements: Results presented in this article have been obtained within the project "Living with Hard Times: How Citizens React to Economic Crises and Their Social and Political Consequences" (LIVEWHAT). This project is/was funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (grant agreement no. 613237). We would like to thank Manlio Cinalli (Science Po, Paris) and Jordi Muñoz Mendoza (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona) for their valuable comments and suggestions on a previous draft of this article. Moreover, we are grateful for the support of Perikles Drakos (University of Crete) in regard to MCA, and for a number of research assistants responsible for the coding of the claims-making data.

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Section: The Public Construction Of Understandings and Assessments Ofmentioning

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Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account on Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis

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“…As the OECD points out, the single most important explanation for the gap between the business slump and employment outcomes is the reduction of working hours (Lehndorff ). Manufacturing firms hoarded their permanent staff by employing various measures: they cut back on overtime, used deposits on working‐time accounts, reduced working‐time and used the public short‐time provisions, which were extended as part of the stimulus package.…”

Section: Germany's Recovery In the Financial Crisismentioning

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“…As the OECD points out, the single most important explanation for the gap between the business slump and employment outcomes is the reduction of working hours (Lehndorff 2010). Manufacturing firms hoarded their…”

Section: Germany's Recovery In the Financial Crisismentioning

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The Paradox of Liberalization — Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy

Hassel

2012

Brit J Industrial Rel

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What do the recent trends in German economic development convey about the trajectory of change? Has liberalization prepared the German economy to deal with new challenges? What effects will liberalization have on the co‐ordinating capacities of economic institutions? This article argues that co‐ordination and liberalization are two sides of the same coin in the process of corporate restructuring in the face of economic shocks. Firms seek labour co‐operation in the face of tighter competitive pressures and exploit institutional advantages of co‐ordination. However, tighter co‐operation with core workers sharpened insider–outsider divisions and were built upon service sector cost cutting through liberalization. The combination of plant‐level restructuring and social policy change forms a trajectory of institutional adjustment of forming complementary economic segments which work under different rules. The process is driven by producer coalitions of export‐oriented firms and core workers’ representatives, rather than by firms per se.

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“…As the OECD points out, the single most important explanation for the gap between the business slump and employment outcomes is the reduction of working hours (Lehndorff, 2010;OECD, 2010). Manufacturing firms hoarded their permanent staff by employing various measures: they cut back on overtime, used deposits on working-time accounts, reduced working-time and used the public short-time provisions, which were extended as part of the stimulus package.…”

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The Paradox of Liberalization – Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy

Hassel

2011

SSRN Journal

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What do the recent trends in German economic development convey about the trajectory of change? Has liberalization prepared the German economy to deal with new challenges? What effects will liberalization have on the coordinating capacities of economic institutions? This paper argues that coordination and liberalization are two sides of the same coin in the process of corporate restructuring in the face of economic shocks. Firms seek labour cooperation in the face of tighter competitive pressures and exploit institutional advantages of coordination. However, tighter cooperation with core workers sharpened insider-outsider divisions and were built upon service sector cost cutting through liberalization. The combination of plantlevel restructuring and social policy change forms a trajectory of institutional adjustment of forming complementary economic segments which work under different rules. The process is driven by producer coalitions of export-oriented firms and core workers' representatives rather than by firms per se.

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Before the crisis, in the crisis, and beyond: the upheaval of collective bargaining in Germany

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account on Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis

Political Claims and Discourse Formations: A Comparative Account on Germany and Greece in the Eurozone Crisis

The Paradox of Liberalization — Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy

The Paradox of Liberalization – Understanding Dualism and the Recovery of the German Political Economy

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