Book Review: Industrial Relations Theory: Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society
Book Review: Industrial Relations Theory: Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society
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书评：劳资关系理论：理解欧洲工会主义：市场、阶级和社会之间
DOI：
10.1177/001979390205600110
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2002
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N. Lillie
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《理解欧洲贸易联盟》是一本写得很好、发人深省的书。那些熟悉理查德·海曼著作的人会认识到，这本书的论点是他过去作品的逻辑延伸和综合。这本书的中心论点是，欧洲工会主义(也就是其他地方的工会主义)正在经历一场意识形态危机，这场危机正在破坏其权力基础，导致或至少是促成了工党的长期衰落。海曼认为，这场意识形态危机的根源在于，工会作为阶级斗争中的“战争学派”的衰落。海曼并不单纯地，甚至主要地将工会视为阶级斗争的代理人。相反，他为他们确定了三个大致相等的角色。首先，工会是经济参与者，寻求通过工业实力和集体谈判来改善其成员的福利。其次，他们是“社会伙伴”，因此是稳定、民主社会的重要组成部分。第三，它们是阶级斗争的工具，反对资本主义下的劳动商品化。在某种组合中，所有的结合都是这三样东西，尽管每个方面在不同的方面或多或少都很明显。
Understanding European Trade Unionism is a well-written, thought-provoking book. Those familiar with Richard Hyman's writings will recognize this book's argument as the logical extension and synthesis of his past work. The book's central thesis is that European trade unionism (and, by implication, trade unionism elsewhere) is undergoing an ideological crisis that is undermining its power base, causing, or at least contributing to, labor's long decline. At the root of this ideological crisis, Hyman argues, is the decline of unions as "schools of war" in class struggle. Hyman does not regard unions purely, or even mainly, as agents of class struggle. Rather, he identifies three roughly co-equal roles for them. First, unions are economic actors, seeking to improve the welfare of their members through industrial strength and collective bargaining. Second, they are "social partners," and as such are an essential part of stable, democratic societies. Third, they are vehicles for class struggle, fighting the commodification of labor under capitalism. All unions are all three of these things, in some combination, although each facet is more or less evident at different