Vernon, Guy (2000) What shapes working conditions? Comparative historical evidence for manufacturing. In: UNSPECIFIED, Corfu, Greece.
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Abstract
The past decade has seen much discussion about the scope for national distinctiveness in employment relations in the context of the globalisation of corporations and markets. This paper employs historical data on aspects of working conditions in eleven nations’ manufacturing sectors to comment on the impact of supposedly intensifying global pressures. With no historic convergence of working conditions evident in a statistical analysis, the paper turns to a preliminary econometric analysis to afford some purchase on the conditions which underpin continuing national distinctiveness. The results suggest that cross-national variation in the exposure of employees to managerial prerogative, whilst being far from the only influence, has played a substantial role in the shaping of working conditions.
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Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Econometrics. |
Subjects for non-EU documents: | EU policies and themes > External relations > globalisation/globalization EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market > employment/unemployment EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > economic and financial affairs > business/private economic activity |
Subjects for EU documents: | UNSPECIFIED |
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Conference: | European Political-economy Infrastructure Consortium (EPIC) > Ionian Conference 2000 - Challenges of the New Millenium, Corfu, 20-22 May, 2000 > Theme: Technology and employment, new ways of organising production and labour |
Depositing User: | Phil Wilkin |
Official EU Document: | No |
Language: | English |
Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2003 |
Page Range: | p. 30 |
Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2011 17:16 |
URI: | http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/752 |
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