@article{2014:vandaele:ende_des_a,
title = {Ende des Abwärtstrends? Zur Entwicklung des Streikvolumens in Westeuropa seit Beginn der Weltwirtschaftskrise},
year = {2014},
note = {Social mobilisation and unrest have been gaining momentum around the
world recently. However, at first glance, there has been no general
surge in the volume of strikes in Western Europe since the outbreak of
the Great Recession. How can this be explained? First of all, the
article points to a data problem. In Southern Europe, where a high
number of general strikes take place, public data on more recent
strikes are not available. At the same time, a relative increase in
political mass strikes can be observed outside Southern Europe,
particularly within the public sector. This suggests that the de facto
strike volume has remained stable or even has increased since the
beginning of the Great Recession.         Secondly, industry-wide
strikes are not central to the new social protest cycle; they belong
to the contention repertoire of industrial unionism and are
traditionally associated with the bargaining cycle, particularly in
Scandinavia and in traditionally less-‘strike-prone’ countries
like Germany.},
journal = {WSI-Mitteilungen},
pages = {345--352},
author = {Vandaele, Kurt},
volume = {67},
number = {5}
}