A State Within a State: Industrial Relations in Israel, 1965-1987

by Ran Chermesh

Overview

According to Chermesh, the Israeli industrial relations system has developed as a state within a state, having, by the mid-1980s, gained a high level of autonomy and detachment from political and economic constraints. At the heart of the system is the Histadrut, the General Federation of Labor, which Chermesh asserts must be radically reshaped in order to bring about political and economic control of the system.

By tracing the evolution of the system from the mid-1960s, Chermesh demonstrates the limits of economic and legal perspectives as analytical tools in the field of collective industrial relations. Instead he stresses the importance of the institutional setting for planning and implementing sound industrial relations policy. By constructing an analytical laboratory for industrial relations research. Chermesh's study merits the attention of students and scholars involved in comparative industrial relations and the sociology of organizations as well as those studying contemporary Israeli society and economic life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313285479
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/30/1993
Series:	Contributions in Labor Studies , #43
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1230L (what's this?)

About the Author

RAN CHERMESH is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. His writings on industrial relations have appeared in the Jourbanal of Management Studies, the British Jourbanal of Industrial Relations, Social Science Research, and other jourbanals in the field.

Table of Contents

General Introduction
The Israeli irs (industrial relations system)
The New Economic Policy and the Autonomy of the Israeli irs49
Strike Management: Norm and Practice
Strikes in an Action Framework: Israeli Strikes and Their Context
Strikes and IRS Autonomy: A Hierarchical Multi-Level Model and Its Demonstration on Israeli Data
Strikes as Social Problems: A Social Problem Matrix Approach
Strikes: The Issue of Social Responsibility
Epilogue
Appendix: Three-Dimensional Diagrams
References
Index