Negotiating the new Germany : can social partnership survive?

Based on original contributions presented at the conference "The political economy of the new Germany," held at Cornell University, Oct. 14-15, 1994.

Introduction. Up against the fallen wall: the crisis of social partnership in unified Germany / Lowell Turner -- Institutional stability pays: German industrial relations under pressure / Peter Auer -- The dilemmas of diffusion: institutional transfer and the remaking of vocational training practices in EasternGermany / Richard M. Locke and Wade Jacoby -- Active labor market policy and German unification: the role of employment and training companies / Matthias Knuth-- Unions in the new lander: evidence for the urgency of reform / Michael Fichter --Unifying Germany: crisis, conflict, and social partnership in the east / Lowell Turner -- Institutions challenged: German unification, policy errors, and the "siren song" of deregulation / Christopher S. Allen --Political adaptation togrowing labor market segmentation / Stephen J. Silvia -- The limits of German manufacturing flexibility / Gary Herrigel -- Renegotiating the German model: labor-management relations in the new Germany / Kirsten S. Wever -- The seco