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Lockouts in the Netherlands: why statistics on labour disputes must discriminate between strikes and lockouts, and why new statistics need to be compiled
Aussperrungen in den Niederlanden: warum die Arbeitskampfstatistik zwischen Streik und Aussperrung unterscheiden muss und warum wir neue Statistiken brauchen
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Abstract 'Lockouts are a phenomenon greatly underestimated in research into labour relations. Despite the ILO recommendations many national statistical bureaus do not make a distinction between strikes and lockouts. This practice leads to false conclusions about workers' behaviour. After all, strikes and loc... view more
'Lockouts are a phenomenon greatly underestimated in research into labour relations. Despite the ILO recommendations many national statistical bureaus do not make a distinction between strikes and lockouts. This practice leads to false conclusions about workers' behaviour. After all, strikes and lockouts are two sides of the medal of labour relations but really two different sides. Strikes are a weapon of workers, whereas lockouts can be a means by which employers force their workers into a certain direction. The data on labour relations should therefore discriminate between strikes and lockouts. Because the official data often neglect this, it may be necessary to do own research into the subject. This article shows the argument for discrimination taking the Netherlands as an example with some references to other countries.' (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Netherlands; strike; lockout; industrial dispute; twentieth century; nineteenth century
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy
Sociology of Economics
Working Conditions
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Method
empirical; historical; quantitative empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Page/Pages
p. 341-362
Journal
Historical Social Research, 31 (2006) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.31.2006.4.341-362
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed