Industrial Relations in the Dutch and U.S. IT Industries: Two Systems Moving Apart Together?
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2003
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Conference Paper
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industrial relations, information-technology industry, United States, the Netherlands, comparative study, unions, collective agreements, worker organizing, worker representation
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Sociology
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English
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103-395-172
(Last edited on
2003/10/02 09:42:58 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
Since the mid-1990s, the Dutch industrial relations system has caught the attention of international scholars and
politicians for its crucial role in realizing job creation and economic growth. While this system of close ties
between employers and organized labor (the so-called ‘polder model’) has been in place for most industries, it is
largely absent in the Dutch information technology (IT) industry. This is best illustrated by the lack of an
industry-wide collective agreement and a preference for individually negotiated conditions and terms of
employment. Given this, and the fact that the corporate culture in many Dutch IT companies is strongly
influenced by American companies, the IT industry in the Netherlands may be typified as the least ‘Dutch’ of all
industries. Trends and developments in the realm of work and employment in the Dutch IT industry are often
considered as signs of an ‘Americanization’ of industrial relations. In this paper, we contrast these features with
recent developments in the industrial relations domain in the U.S. IT industry. We conclude that, as with its
Dutch counterpart, the industrial relations system in the U.S. IT industry appears to deviate from national
industrial relations trends. We examine the principal factors underlying these developments. We conclude this
paper with a tentative answer to the question whether the divergence of the industrial relations system of the U.S.
IT industry can eventually lead to a convergence of this system and that of the Dutch IT industry.
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