The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy

by Roberto Franzosi

Book Overview

This book is an attempt to explain the temporal movement of postwar Italian strikes: why and when strikes go up or down and what the strategies of the main actors involved are. In many ways, the book is unique in the social sciences. First, it takes an inductive approach. Rather than start with theories and then use available empirical evidence to test the explanatory power of the theories, the book starts with date. Second, the book is based on a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521031230
• ISBN13: 9780521031233
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 532 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"