Jeong, Dae Yong (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Aguilera, Ruth V. (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Abstract
This paper proposes an alternative framework to understand enterprise unionism by emphasizing political dynamics and the role of the state in labor relations. Our framework delineates the strategic behavior patterns of the tripartite IR actors, and maintains that the initial period of the collective bargaining era constituted critical junctures (state labor policy) that occurred in distinctive ways in different countries and that these differences played a central role in shaping the different union structures in the following decades. Our historical analysis shows that unlike their counterparts in Western countries, the Japanese state whished to and was able to eradicate the horizontal union movement at the onset of the collective bargaining era because of its late developer advantages and the Cold War politics resulting in enterprise unionism in Japan.
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Paper provided by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business in its series Working Papers with number
06-0113.