Safety nets or straitjackets?: regulating working time in the Danish, German and American metal industries created by Anna Ilsøe

By:

Ilsøe, Anna [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: European journal of industrial relations ; Volume 18, number 1London: Sage, 2012Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISSN:

09596801

Subject(s):

Working time arrangement -- Employment relations -- Metal industry -- Denmark -- Germany | -- United States

LOC classification:

HD8391 EUR

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Abstract: Does regulation of working hours at national and sector level impose straitjackets, or offer safety nets to employees seeking working time flexibility? This article compares legislation and collective agreements in the metal industries of Denmark, Germany and the USA. The industry has historically been trend-setting for collective bargaining in all three countries, but with very different effects on working time. Organized decentralization seems to pave the way for fewer straitjackets, whereas the opposite seems to be the case with regard to disorganized decentralization.

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Journal Article	Main Library - Special Collections	HD8391 EUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Vol. 18, no.1 (pages 37-52)	SP14923	Not for loan	For in house use only

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Does regulation of working hours at national and sector level impose straitjackets, or offer safety nets to employees seeking working time flexibility? This article compares legislation and collective agreements in the metal industries of Denmark, Germany and the USA. The industry has historically been trend-setting for collective bargaining in all three countries, but with very different effects on working time. Organized decentralization seems to pave the way for fewer straitjackets, whereas the opposite seems to be the case with regard to disorganized decentralization.

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