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Graña, F.
Social dialogue and governance in the age of "Minimum State"

Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 2005
70p. (Technical office papers, 16)

ISBN: 92-9088-189-5

(Full text only available in Spanish pdf format)

 

Nowadays, the issue of social dialogue plays a key role of a vast interdisciplinary debate. There is general agreement about using this term in the understanding that it covers all the relationships between actors of the labour world that do not imply conflict: consultation, negotiation, agreement, participation, etc. Due to the relatively vague or polysemous aspect of the concept, a contextual, historical and social approach becomes very important - every time its operational use is expected. This article continues and goes deeply into prior considerations of the author regarding social dialogue and governance, understanding that it expresses the main differences and tense situations involved in the current problems of social dialogue.

This paper is framed within the project "Transboundary competitiveness in the centre of Mercosur" of the ECOS-SUD Programme of Scientific Research between Uruguay and France 2004-2006.

 

INDEX

1. Introduction

2. From hard power to soft power

3. State versus "civil society"?

4. The corporate governance

5. The World Bank and the good governance

6. World governance

7. Metropolisation and "urban governance" in Europe

8. The crusaders of the "Minimum State"

9. Some critical opinions

10. Bibliography

 

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