Lowell Turner is Professor of International and Comparative Labor at the ILR School and Director of the Worker Institute at Cornell University. He is coeditor most recently of Mobilizing against Inequality, Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds, and Rekindling the Movement, all from Cornell.
"A charmingly readable page-turner about labor relations in the former East Germany... Turner's study is one of the best labor history books this reviewer has read in recent years... Recommended for anyone with an interest in German studies and for students of contemporary history and social sciences."-Choice "A seasoned observer of Germany's contemporary industrial scene, Lowell Turner's vivid and up-beat book rightly emphasizes a remarkable achievement which has failed to win the international recognition it deserves."-Financial Times "An innovative, detailed analysis... A very stimulating (and optimistic) account... This book should become required reading for all students interested in the political economy of Germany."-Comparative Labor law and Policy Journal "Highly readable."-Canadian Journal of Political Science "Provides an argument that industrial relations in eastern Germany has demonstrated remarkable resilience and flexibility and has sustained the transferred German model of social partnership. Turner uses the concept of social partnership in terms of the relationship between labour and management, and specifically the collective bargaining relationship between organised employers and trade unions within the German co-determination framework."-Karl Koch. German Politics. December, 1999. "Lowell Turner enjoyed unparalleled access to employer associations, trade unions, and individual firms in the new Lander after 1990. Out of this unique data base he weaves a nuanced account of the economic and political challenges confronting these actors at a time of extreme upheaval and uncertainty."-Jeffrey Anderson, Brown University "Very well written and highly readable, Fighting for Partnership is the first book-length attempt to analyze the role of industrial relations in the unification of Germany and to account for the impact of unification on the German industrial relations system. It also updates the state of the knowledge on German industrial relations as a whole, including West Germany, in the 1990s. This book will be must-reading for students of German politics and industrial relations."-Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
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