TY - BOOK ID - 78437843 TI - The New Structure of Labor Relations : Tripartism and Decentralization AU - Katz, Harry C., AU - Lee, Joohee, AU - Lee, Wonduck, PY - 2018 SN - 1501731432 9781501731433 0801441846 9780801441844 PB - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Industrial relations KW - Collective bargaining KW - Bargaining KW - Labor negotiations KW - Negotiation in business KW - Capital and labor KW - Employee-employer relations KW - Employer-employee relations KW - Labor and capital KW - Labor-management relations KW - Labor relations KW - Employees KW - Management KW - #SBIB:316.334.2A440 KW - Arbeidssociologie: het strategisch optreden van de partijen in de collectieve arbeidsverhoudingen: algemeen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78437843 AB - Tripartism-the national-level interaction among representatives of labor, management, and government-occurs infrequently in the United States. Based on the U.S. experience, then, such interactions might seem irrelevant to economic performance and policymaking. The essays in this volume reveal the falsity of that assumption.Contributors from eight industrialized countries (Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States) examine the changing nature of labor-management relations, with a particular focus on the role of tripartism and the decentralization of collective bargaining. Although nonexistent in the United States and on the decline in Japan and Australia, tripartism flourishes in Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, expanding beyond traditional corporatist partners to include women's organizations, senior citizens, and other representatives of "civic society." The vibrancy of the coordinating mechanisms that help shape employment conditions and labor policy contradicts the traditional belief that an overpowering unilateral decentralizing shift is underway in labor-management interactions. The contributors show that these mechanisms are in fact increasing in the face of intensified pressures, promoting greater flexibility in work organization and working time. ER -