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The East In Open Conflict: The Great Strike Of 1993, Lowell Turner
The East In Open Conflict: The Great Strike Of 1993, Lowell Turner
Lowell Turner
[Excerpt] Because it is impossible in one book to examine all German institutions of negotiation, this book focuses on one important set of relations at the heart of social market regulation: the "social partnership" between labor and management. "Social partnership," a term widely used throughout the European Union but little known in the United States, refers to the nexus—and central political and economic importance—of bargaining relationships between strongly organized employers (in employer associations) and employees (in unions and works councils) that range from comprehensive collective bargaining and plant-level codetermination to vocational training and federal, state, and local economic policy discussions. …
Barbeque, Farming And Friendship: German Prisoners Of War And South Carolinians, 1943-1946, Fritz Hamer
Barbeque, Farming And Friendship: German Prisoners Of War And South Carolinians, 1943-1946, Fritz Hamer
Fritz Hamer
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Transborder Membership Politics In Germany And Korea, Rogers Brubaker, Jaeeun Kim
Transborder Membership Politics In Germany And Korea, Rogers Brubaker, Jaeeun Kim
Rogers Brubaker
This paper examines changing German and Korean policies towards transborder coethnics (Germans in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and Koreans in Japan and China) during the high Cold War and post-Cold War eras. The paper contributes to the emerging literature on transborder forms of membership and belonging by highlighting and explaining the selective, variable, contingent, contested, and revocable nature of states’ embrace of transborder coethnics. The explanation highlights the relationship of transborder populations to predecessor polities; changing geopolitical contexts and domestic political conjunctures; the constitutive, group-making – and group-unmaking – power of state categorization practices; and the enduring …