Union of Parts
Labor Politics in Postwar Germany

Kathleen Thelen (Author)

9780801425868

Hardback, published 13 February 1992

264 pages
23.5 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.907 kg

Union of Parts examines one of the central puzzles in the economic and political successes of West Germany (FRG). In the decades between world war and reunification with the East, the FRG provided a model for combining high rates of unionization and substantial labor peace—indeed, for collaboration between organized labor and organized capital as both groups faced the dislocations involved in adjusting to a changing global marketplace.