Pay, politics, and economic performance in Ireland, 1970-1987

Niamh Hardiman

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Part 1 The logic of economic policies: the context of concertation in post-war political economy the logic of trade union action conditions facilitating concertation. Part 2 The international context of the Irish case: political adaptation in small open economies the economic context of pay policy in Ireland collective bargaining as a focus of policy interest. Part 3 The politicization of collective bargaining: the centralized agreements 1970-1980 centralized agreements and government's input. Part 4 Evaluating the centralized pay agreements: performance in areas of employer and trade union interest the role of government. Part 5 The trade union movement - capacity for strategy and problems of collective action: collective identity and collective action the structure of the trade union movement ICTU as a strategic actor implications for trade union strategy the intensification of local bargaining activity. Part 6 Employers' associations and centralized bargaining: associability and collective purpose in employers' associations membership and functions of employers' associations implications for employers' solidarity employers' associations and government policy. Part 7 Economic interests and party politics: the significance of the role of government the parliamentary representation of interests non-ideological politics and the electoral system priorities in public policy the dominance of the concertative approach. Part 8 Collective bargaining in the 1980s: employers' experiences of collective bargaining in recession the trade unions' responses to recession government's experiences - fiscal and pay policy the approach to a new centralized agreement. Conclusion: structural change in the small open economy dependent development in the small open economy centralized agreements and class politics public policy and trade union strategy.

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