Regulation, Power and Scale: 'reworking' Capital-labour Relations in German Smes
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This paper is concerned with recent changes in the way capital-labour relations are regulated in German SMEs. By investigating 28 firm case-studies in the Ruhr Area, it is argued, first, that capital-labour relations in Germany are getting downscaled and decentralised, profoundly changing the traditional power geometry between capital and labour; second, that the regulatory landscape is being 'reworked' in terms favourable to capital during a period in which the latter is in the ascendancy in the labour market; and, third, that there is a peculiar spatial dimension to the rearticulation of power relations and core institutions of the German Model.
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