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Still a Coordinated Model? Market Liberalization and the Transformation of Employment Relations in the German Telecommunications Industry

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dc.contributor.authorDoellgast, Virginia
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-17T17:33:18Z
dc.date.available2020-11-17T17:33:18Z
dc.date.issued2009-10-01
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines recent changes in collective bargaining and employer strategies in the German telecommunications industry following market liberalization in the late 1990s. Germany’s distinctive co-determination and vocational training institutions encouraged large firms to adopt employment systems in technician and call center workplaces that relied on high levels of worker skill and discretion. However, organizational restructuring is undermining these gains, as firms use outsourcing and the creation of subsidiaries to escape or weaken company-level collective agreements. These trends have substantially weakened unions and contributed to the further disorganization of coordinated bargaining structures. Findings are based on interviews with union and works council representatives, managers, and employees at Deutsche Telekom and its major competitors conducted between 2003 and 2007, as well as secondary analysis of company documents and industry reports.
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dc.identifier.other7642358
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/76117
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: © Cornell University. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectGermany
dc.subjecttelecommunications industry
dc.subjectlabor relations
dc.subjectlabor market
dc.subjectcollective bargaining
dc.titleStill a Coordinated Model? Market Liberalization and the Transformation of Employment Relations in the German Telecommunications Industry
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationDoellgast, Virginia: vld7@cornell.edu Cornell University

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