El impacto de la Gran Recesión en la representación sindical del sur de Europa

Marcial Sánchez Mosquera

doi:10.5209/stra.82001

Trade union in Southern Europe after the Great Recession

Marcial Sánchez Mosquera Universidad de Sevilla https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1709-1338

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/stra.82001

Keywords: trade union representation, collective bargaining, Great Recession, Southern Europe

Abstract

The paper analyses the impact of the Great Recession on trade union representation in Southern Europe. The economic and employment cycle, and especially the major unilateral reforms of labour markets and collective bargaining, have affected union representation in these countries. In Italy and Spain, union representation has resisted the onslaught of institutional reforms and the crisis, which have had a greater effect on Portugal and, above all, Greece.

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2022-05-13

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Sánchez Mosquera M. (2022). Trade union in Southern Europe after the Great Recession. Sociología del Trabajo, 100, 105-115. https://doi.org/10.5209/stra.82001

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