ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the extent of change in Austro-Corporatism as well as its present problems and future prospects. In Austria, a strike is often regarded as an alarming event that should be overcome immediately; it is the responsibility of the Osterreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund to decide whether a strike is legitimate. With regard to income policy we have once more to distinguish between inclusive corporatism of the Scandinavian type, and Austria’s exclusive corporatism. According to the most common indicators of economic performance, Austria passed through the recession of the turn of the decade comparably well. Internationalization has increasingly become a challenge for national economic policy as well as for the national industrial-relations systems. Significantly more successful were the social partners with respect to Austria’s integration into the European Union (EU). Integration effects were to be expected even in case Austria had not joined the EU.
