The Return of Lockouts Down Under in Comparative Perspective Globalization, the State, and Employer Militancy

摘要: Virtually unheard of since the Great Depression, lockouts have reemerged strongly in Australia and New Zealand just as they all but disappeared Germany. The decline Germany is convincingly attributed to enhanced vulnerability firms stoppages certain circumstances amid globalization, small, open economies are equally subject these pressures. Using macro-and micro-level data, this article illustrates that neoliberal legislative reforms institutional change reconfigured risks, costs, payoffs associated with globalization. In doing so, some flaws varieties capitalism/dual convergence literature highlighted. particular, post hoc classification antipodes liberal market bypasses role reform reconstituting employer interests differences electoral, party, state structures impeded/facilitated rise reformers ...