Comparative industrial relations systems
[TRAV2730]
[30h] 5 credits
Teacher(s): Marc Fourny, Evelyne Léonard
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
- To help them understand the specific linkage of various 'typical' systems that have grown up in European countries.
- To help them identify, and make a comparative analysis of, the main specific features of, and differences be-tween, these typical systems and explanatory variables.
Main themes
- Interrelations between, on the one hand, the law of the land and, on the other, law as established under collec-tive agreements; the intervention of the state, and autonomy of the social partners.
- The structures, ideologies and strategies of employers' association and trade unions; political options and sys-tems for recognising representativeness.
- The diversity and degrees of institutionalisation and representation.
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