Conclusions for Research

Steindl, Josef

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Document type:: Works

Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: Conclusions for Research: Fassung

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Typoskript, 13 lose Blätter

Year of publication:: 1987

Language:: English

Description:: Steindl draws some conclusions from the contributions made at the Conference on Barriers to Full Employment (Berlin, 1-3 October 1985 under the auspices of the International Institute of Management's Labour Market Policy Section).

Note:: Zusatz zum Titel fingiert. - Enstehungsdatum erschlossen.

Related work:: Steindl, Josef: New Lines of Research on the Question of Full Employment. In: Kregel, Jan; Matzner, Egon; Roncaglia, Alessandro (Hrsg.): Barriers to Full Employment. London: Macmillan 1988.

Topic:: Economic history,economic theory,current developments

Shelfmark:: S/M.55.2

Access:: Free access

12 for income policy and consensus policy are very favorable since there is agreat concentration of decision making power on all sides. But the very conditions which make incomes policy and short run policy in ge neral so emminently successful involve great disadvantages for long-term economic policy. The required concentration and stability of power involves great conservativism and immobility. There is a lack of interest in long~t,erm policy altogether, and the climate created by entrenched hierarchies is quite unfavorable to innovation and technology policy. What struck me in the discussion were the doubts, partly open partly implicit, about wage structure and the related policy. We know that inspite of professions of solidarity wages are vastly unequal in many countries with concentrated union power. They can not be otherwise if the weak industries and firms are to be protected. Hence Meidner's principle of brutality - let the weak firms die - is a decisive condition for equality. But can we afford it? ( It may also be a regional problem ). Inequality and wage drift are also of importance for inflation and for the structural problems ( the declining basic industries have high wages ). In view of the great interest of these questions c~^ it seems to me that a comparative study of trade union organisation in relation to wage formation, technology and training in a number of countries would be a very promising line of research.At the same time it will be necessary to extend such a study to the dynamical and historical aspects that is to the changes which have happened and are happening in the field of labour relations and trade unions ( we have to think, for example, of the effect of the decline of the basic and smoke stake industries, the rise of new industries and attitudes of management).

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