Introduction: policy reform in Southern Europe and Ireland and the role of social dialogue / Konstantinos Papadakis and Youcef Ghellab -- Impact of the crisis on industrial relations in Europe / Christian Welz and Andrea Broughton -- Explaining the institutional architecture of the Eurozone and...

This paper employs a game-theoretic framework and a comparative historical analysis to study the impact of the Great Depression on corporate welfarism,' i.e., employers' voluntary provisions of non-wage benefits, greater employment security, and employee representation to their blue-collar...