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dc.contributor.authorJAHN, Detlefen
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-09T09:01:05Z
dc.date.available2006-06-09T09:01:05Z
dc.date.issued1991
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 1991en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/5158
dc.descriptionDefence date: 24 September 1991
dc.descriptionExamining Board: Prof. Gösta Esping-Andersen (EUI, Supervisor) ; Prof. Claus Offe (Universität Bremen, co-supervisor) ; Dr. Ferdinand Müller-Rommel (Universität Lüneburg) ; Prof. Olof Petersson (University of Uppsala) ; Prof. Alessandro Pizzorno (EUI)
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dc.description.abstractThe institutionalization of ecological attitudes in highly industrialized societies is the main interest of this study. Analyses of national politics often underestimates the competing and partially latent interests which are voiced by different political pressure groups. Therefore, I am interested in the response of the workers' movement to the ecological challenge. Although the labor movement does not support the cruder forms of ecologism such as no-growth claims, of all established political actors it is the most open to these demands. This is so because the ecological politics offers an utopia for a modern society. The labor movement has also the aspiration of being a socially progressive force of society that aims for social change. Most directly, the left-wing parties have to compete with other parties that attract the post-material electorate. However, the policy and strategy of workingclass parties are not independent of trade union policy. It is self-evident that politicians of social democratic parties consult trade unions in order to formulate their political goals. But also on the national policy level, unions are often consulted in order to obtain a broad alliance for some political decisions. All these examples should illustrate that trade union policy and standpoints concerning the development of society are important for the better understanding of the political outcomes of society. Yet traditional union policy - and also trade union research - tends very much to generally ignore politics: "Unions are involved in a major way in a very significant activity - the political life of the country - and yet there is considerable evidence that they do not take that activity very seriously".
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSPSen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/24723
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.lcshLabor unions -- Sweden -- Political activity
dc.subject.lcshLabor unions -- Germany -- Political activity
dc.subject.lcshNuclear energy -- Political aspects -- Sweden
dc.subject.lcshNuclear energy -- Political aspects -- Germany
dc.subject.lcshAntinuclear movement -- Sweden
dc.subject.lcshAntinuclear movement -- Germany
dc.titleNew politics in trade unions : an organisation theoretical analysis of the debate on nuclear energy in Swedish and German trade unionsen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.identifier.doi10.2870/058106
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