Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

"Ouvriers et travailleurs sont des figures bien connues, mais leurs contours n'ont cessé d'évoluer aux XIXe et XXe siècles en Europe. À partir d'un réexamen de la manière dont on a écrit leur histoire, le propos de cet ouvrage ambitieux est de redessiner ces figures. Rassemblant une...

This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses - a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...

Are strikes going out of fashion or are they an inevitable feature of working life? This is a longstanding debate. The much-proclaimed 'withering away of the strike' in the 1950s was quickly overturned by the 'resurgence of class conflict' in the late 1960s and 1970s. The period since then has...