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- catalog abstract "This book presents, through an extensive and novel inductive approach, an analysis of the temporal dynamics of postwar Italian strikes in the industrial sector. The author begins by highlighting a set of characteristics in the strike data that call for explanation: the pieces of the puzzle. Then, chapter by chapter, the author uses a broad range of available strike theories - business cycle, economic, hardship, resource mobilization, bargaining structure, political exchange, and Marxist - as clues to assemble the puzzle. The study has the organizational structure of a mystery story, with its sequence of false steps, pat solutions, and unexpected twists and turns. This is characterized in the final chapter of the book, when the causal argument is completely reversed. The book is also novel in its combined use of statistical, historical, ethnographic, and survey material, as well as its view of strikes as the strategic interaction between organized interests. It focuses as much on employers' and state actions as on workers' actions. The book's aim is not merely descriptive, nor does it seek simply to test the explanatory power of existing strike theories. Rather, its goal is more ambitious: to disentangle the causal structure in the historical interaction among the social processes in the economic, institutional, and political arenas.".
- catalog contributor b6658019.
- catalog coverage "Italy Economic conditions 1945-".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "1. The puzzle box. Why strikes? Why Italy? Meet the Italian strike. Letting the data talk: the pieces of the puzzle. How to fit the puzzle: the available theories. Serious problems: dialogue among the deaf. More serious problems: it takes two to tango. Really serious problems: the automatic pilot (writing schemata and regression blenders). In search of a solution. Organization of the book. Pat solutions, red herrings, and paradoxes -- 2. Labor-market conditions and bargaining power. How the labor-market argument runs. The economists' tradition of strike research: the Ashenfelter and Johnson model. Test of the Ashenfelter and Johnson model: empirical results. A word of caution. Further problems: Is that all we can say? Examining the residuals. Subsample analyses. Checking the results against economic history. Fitting the puzzle: the first step -- ".
- catalog description "3. When do workers strike? How the economy matters. Did I go wrong? Beyond strike-frequency models. Beyond labor-market models. Structural characteristics of the Italian economy. Even if bargaining parties had perfect knowledge: the Marxist view of conflict and the economy. Where we stand -- 4. Organizational resources and collective action. Shifting gears. Hardship, discontent, and labor unrest. Resource-mobilization theories of collective action. La longue duree: moral economy and repertoires of collective action. Testing the organizational model. Back to exploratory analyses. More history: the organization of interests. Muddled causality: further probing into the role of organization. Aiutati che il ciel t'aiuta: the Marxist approach to organization. Fitting more pieces to the puzzle -- ".
- catalog description "5. The structure of collective bargaining. Unanswered questions. Collective bargaining in postwar Italy: a brief historical overview. Does the structure of collective bargaining make a difference? Back to the Ashenfelter and Johnson model. Unexplained residuals: Why models of the number of strikers perform so poorly. Plant-level bargaining. On the cost of strikes (the employers' view). Unforeseen pieces fall into place. A false sense of security. The picture emerges -- ".
- catalog description "6. Class power, politics, and conflict. Left to explain: the 1975-78 strike shapes. Political models of strikes: the long term. Political models of strikes: the short term. Italian postwar politics: blocked opportunities on the left. Political subcultures: Red regions, White regions. An overall model of power. Short term and long term, economics and politics: the unions' dilemmas. Economic versus organizational/political models of strikes: Snyder's argument on Italy. The micro and the macro, the economic and the political: modes of regulation of labor. The power of statistics and the statistics of power. The finished picture? -- ".
- catalog description "7. Mobilization processes: the 1969 autunno caldo. Clearly an outlier: 1969. Strike waves and cycles of struggle. The supermarket at Fiat Mirafiori: the workers. The tactics: "everyone did what they wanted" The demands: vogliamo tutto ("we want everything"). The radical Left. Structure and culture. The limits of participation. Strike waves: political or economic explanations? -- 8. Countermobilization processes: reactions by the state and employers to strike waves. Switching sides: the view from above. State responses. The long aftermath. The great fear: from paternalism to personnel management. Collective responses: reaffirming la centralita dell'impresa. Converging interests: inquadramento unico (mobilita interna). Housecleaning (mobilita esterna). Machines don't strike. Small plants don't strike. Against the market and labor: the employers' dream of total flexibility. The puzzle is complete -- ".
- catalog description "9. The picture in the puzzle. Unexpected findings, one more time: class conflict as the independent variable. Summing up what we know (firm empirical grounds). Summing up what we don't know (theoretical puzzles and tentative solutions). Looking into the crystal ball: venturing predictions from the model. The test of history, one last time: the 1980s. Looking back, looking forth: the 1969 autunno caldo in historical perspective. Which road to the past? Methodological dilemmas.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-484) and index.".
- catalog description "This book presents, through an extensive and novel inductive approach, an analysis of the temporal dynamics of postwar Italian strikes in the industrial sector. The author begins by highlighting a set of characteristics in the strike data that call for explanation: the pieces of the puzzle. Then, chapter by chapter, the author uses a broad range of available strike theories - business cycle, economic, hardship, resource mobilization, bargaining structure, political exchange, and Marxist - as clues to assemble the puzzle. The study has the organizational structure of a mystery story, with its sequence of false steps, pat solutions, and unexpected twists and turns. This is characterized in the final chapter of the book, when the causal argument is completely reversed. The book is also novel in its combined use of statistical, historical, ethnographic, and survey material, as well as its view of strikes as the strategic interaction between organized interests. It focuses as much on employers' and state actions as on workers' actions. The book's aim is not merely descriptive, nor does it seek simply to test the explanatory power of existing strike theories. Rather, its goal is more ambitious: to disentangle the causal structure in the historical interaction among the social processes in the economic, institutional, and political arenas.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 502 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521452872 (hardback)".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in comparative politics".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy Economic conditions 1945-".
- catalog spatial "Italy.".
- catalog subject "331.89/2945 20".
- catalog subject "Collective bargaining Italy.".
- catalog subject "HD5383 .F73 1994".
- catalog subject "Labor market Italy.".
- catalog subject "Labor policy Italy.".
- catalog subject "Strikes and lockouts Italy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The puzzle box. Why strikes? Why Italy? Meet the Italian strike. Letting the data talk: the pieces of the puzzle. How to fit the puzzle: the available theories. Serious problems: dialogue among the deaf. More serious problems: it takes two to tango. Really serious problems: the automatic pilot (writing schemata and regression blenders). In search of a solution. Organization of the book. Pat solutions, red herrings, and paradoxes -- 2. Labor-market conditions and bargaining power. How the labor-market argument runs. The economists' tradition of strike research: the Ashenfelter and Johnson model. Test of the Ashenfelter and Johnson model: empirical results. A word of caution. Further problems: Is that all we can say? Examining the residuals. Subsample analyses. Checking the results against economic history. Fitting the puzzle: the first step -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "3. When do workers strike? How the economy matters. Did I go wrong? Beyond strike-frequency models. Beyond labor-market models. Structural characteristics of the Italian economy. Even if bargaining parties had perfect knowledge: the Marxist view of conflict and the economy. Where we stand -- 4. Organizational resources and collective action. Shifting gears. Hardship, discontent, and labor unrest. Resource-mobilization theories of collective action. La longue duree: moral economy and repertoires of collective action. Testing the organizational model. Back to exploratory analyses. More history: the organization of interests. Muddled causality: further probing into the role of organization. Aiutati che il ciel t'aiuta: the Marxist approach to organization. Fitting more pieces to the puzzle -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "5. The structure of collective bargaining. Unanswered questions. Collective bargaining in postwar Italy: a brief historical overview. Does the structure of collective bargaining make a difference? Back to the Ashenfelter and Johnson model. Unexplained residuals: Why models of the number of strikers perform so poorly. Plant-level bargaining. On the cost of strikes (the employers' view). Unforeseen pieces fall into place. A false sense of security. The picture emerges -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "6. Class power, politics, and conflict. Left to explain: the 1975-78 strike shapes. Political models of strikes: the long term. Political models of strikes: the short term. Italian postwar politics: blocked opportunities on the left. Political subcultures: Red regions, White regions. An overall model of power. Short term and long term, economics and politics: the unions' dilemmas. Economic versus organizational/political models of strikes: Snyder's argument on Italy. The micro and the macro, the economic and the political: modes of regulation of labor. The power of statistics and the statistics of power. The finished picture? -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "7. Mobilization processes: the 1969 autunno caldo. Clearly an outlier: 1969. Strike waves and cycles of struggle. The supermarket at Fiat Mirafiori: the workers. The tactics: "everyone did what they wanted" The demands: vogliamo tutto ("we want everything"). The radical Left. Structure and culture. The limits of participation. Strike waves: political or economic explanations? -- 8. Countermobilization processes: reactions by the state and employers to strike waves. Switching sides: the view from above. State responses. The long aftermath. The great fear: from paternalism to personnel management. Collective responses: reaffirming la centralita dell'impresa. Converging interests: inquadramento unico (mobilita interna). Housecleaning (mobilita esterna). Machines don't strike. Small plants don't strike. Against the market and labor: the employers' dream of total flexibility. The puzzle is complete -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "9. The picture in the puzzle. Unexpected findings, one more time: class conflict as the independent variable. Summing up what we know (firm empirical grounds). Summing up what we don't know (theoretical puzzles and tentative solutions). Looking into the crystal ball: venturing predictions from the model. The test of history, one last time: the 1980s. Looking back, looking forth: the 1969 autunno caldo in historical perspective. Which road to the past? Methodological dilemmas.".
- catalog title "The puzzle of strikes : class and state strategies in postwar Italy / Roberto Franzosi.".
- catalog type "text".