Reform of the industrial relations system and economic restructuring since 1980

The previous chapter presents an argument supported by empirical material that demonstrates the structural significance of management and employer interests as a key factor in explaining economic decline during the post-war period. Moreover, the chapter demonstrates how these interests structured institutional actors and processes such as trade unions and collective bargaining within the industrial relations system. Further, the chapter demonstrates the marginal significance of job regulation in explaining the process of comparative economic decline during the post-war period.