TY - BOOK ID - 33921 TI - The puzzle of strikes : class and state strategies in postwar Italy PY - 1995 VL - *12 SN - 0521452872 0521031230 0511571534 PB - Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Labour conflicts KW - Italy KW - Collective bargaining KW - Labor market KW - Labor policy KW - Strikes and lockouts KW - Négociations collectives KW - Marché du travail KW - Travail KW - Grèves et lock-out KW - Politique gouvernementale KW - Italie KW - Economic conditions KW - Conditions économiques KW - Négociations collectives KW - Marché du travail KW - Grèves et lock-out KW - Conditions économiques KW - 1945-1990 KW - Strikes and lockouts - Italy. KW - Labor market - Italy. KW - Italy - Economic conditions - 1945 KW - -Strikes and lockouts KW - -Labour conflicts KW - -Collective bargaining KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Italy - Economic conditions - 1945- UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33921 AB - This book is an attempt to explain the temporal movement of postwar Italian strikes: why and when strikes go up or down and what the strategies of the main actors involved are. In many ways, the book is unique in the social sciences. First, it takes an inductive approach. Rather than start with theories and then use available empirical evidence to test the explanatory power of the theories, the book starts with date. Second, the book is based on a variety of empirical evidence: statistical, historical, ethnographic and survey material. Third, the book considers the strategies of all the actors involved: workers, employers, the state and the radical left. Finally, the book does not simply explain the movement of strikes; more broadly, it attempts to show how strikes, in their turn, deeply affect the economic, institutional and political spheres of society. ER -