Collective bargaining in the German metal and electrical engineering (M+E) industries has undergone a phase of considerable development since the 1990s. The profound changes which underwent collective bargaining in M+E over the last two decades have to be regarded against the background of a new...

Since the mid-1990s the German system of collective bargaining with its traditional dominance of sector-level agreements has been faced by a process of creeping erosion. While the bargaining coverage has shown a steady decline, a far-reaching decentralisation has increasingly undermined the...

Der Sonderband der WSI-Mitteilungen fokussiert auf die institutionellen Arbeitsbeziehungen in Deutschland. Das System der deutschen industriellen Beziehungen stieß in der Folge des korporatistischen Krisenmanagements der Jahre 2009/2010 auf ein reges Interesse, da es als wesentliche Ursache...