they apprehend only parts of the whole — the variegated structural and institutional currents
With a past checkered with praetorian preeminence
[...] precarity gives German companies a means with which to reconfigure their cost structure. Many now operate a dualized employment structure consisting of a core of permanent employees reinforced by a periphery of precarious workers. This structure gives companies two significant advantages.19 F…
The institutionalized class struggle eroded particularly in the sphere of collective bargaining, as many companies left the employers’ associations and generally became more aggressive in negotiations and labor disputes. Trade unions for their part refrained from forcing employers back into collect…
Germany’s protracted crisis may manifest largely at the level of parliamentary politics, but the deeper context for these political ruptures is the transformation of the country’s economy beginning with reunification in the 1990s and accelerating in the mid-2000s with the creation of the eurozone a…
