Puzzling Choices in Hard Times: Union Ideologies of Social Concertation in the 
Great Recession

Tassinari, Arianna; Donaghey, Jimmy; Galetto, Manuela

doi:10.1111/irel.12299

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Puzzling Choices in Hard Times: Union Ideologies of Social Concertation in the Great Recession

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Tassinari, Arianna
Politische Ökonomie von Wachstumsmodellen, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Tassinari, A., Donaghey, J., & Galetto, M. (2022). Puzzling Choices in Hard Times: Union Ideologies of Social Concertation in the Great Recession. Industrial Relations, 61(1), 109-134. doi:10.1111/irel.12299.

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Using the cases of Ireland and Portugal during the post-2008 Great Recession, we argue that unions' ideological formations around social concertation are central in aiding them to navigate their options about whether to engage in concessionary bargaining with government under crisis conditions. Building on Hyman's triangle of union identity, we show how an ideational perspective can complement interest-based accounts of unions' strategies to explain their engagement with policymakers or their opposition in the macro-management of the economy.