Industrial relations structures in south-east Europe and Turkey: a view from the metalworking industry
Industrial relations structures in south-east Europe and Turkey: a view from the metalworking industry

Summary/Abstract: This study is an academic accompaniment to the EU project Strengthening the social dialogue in south-eastern Europe through CSR instruments. DGB Bildungswerk, the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) and the Office of Co-operation Ruhr University Bochum/Industrial Metal Union (GAS) participated in this project; the latter took responsibility for the accompanying research effort. The project ran over the course of one year (June 2006 – July 2007).1 The objective of the study was, on the one hand, an improvement in the information basis with respect to economic development in the countries of south-eastern Europe: Bulgaria; Romania; Croatia; Macedonia;2 and Turkey (the focus of an earlier article by the same authors, carried in the previous edition of the South-East Review for Labour and Social Affairs). At the same time, another objective was an analysis of industrial relations in these same countries (to which this article turns).

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