Title: Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain
Abstract: This chapter charts the impact of austerity on social concertation, used as an umbrella term to encompass processes and institutions of social partnership/ social dialogue/social concertation/ and neo-corporatism. These arrangements varied considerably between states, and were variously interpreted as providing a real voice for labour or, alternatively, representing a means by which labour might be managed and controlled. Considered as a means of expressing labour influence on policy, social dialogue or partnership has not fared well in the period of austerity. In quite diverse contexts – Canada, Ireland, Spain and Denmark -- notwithstanding national differences, social concertation mechanisms have been by-passed, effectively abolished or, where they remain, reduced in scope and significance. Whatever its limitations in the past, this avenue for expressing labour’s voice on policy issues is even less effective than formerly.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-09-30
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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