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Title: | Malta : moving away from confrontation |
Other Titles: | Collective bargaining in Europe |
Authors: | Debono, Manwel Baldacchino, Godfrey |
Keywords: | Collective bargaining -- European Union countries Collective bargaining -- Malta Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 European Union countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century Malta -- Politics and government -- 21st century Labor unions -- European Union countries Labor unions -- Malta Income -- Malta Wages -- Malta |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Publisher: | ETUI |
Citation: | Debono, M., & Baldacchino, G. (2019). Malta : moving away from confrontation. In T. Müller, K. Vandaele & J. Waddington (Eds.), Collective bargaining in Europe (pp. 423-443). Brussels: ETUI. |
Abstract: | Malta is a small country with a land area of just 316 km2, located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Libya, comprising three inhabited islands with a total resident population of about 440,000. The country achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 after serving essentially as a fortress economy throughout most of its history (Pirotta 2001). Coupled with its small size, this means that manufacturing was essentially non-existent and the Colonial Government was by far the major employer (Zammit 1984). The country has a British-style ‘Westminster- Whitehall’ political system with just two major political parties in Parliament between 1966 and 2007: the Labour Party, which has been in government since 2013, and the Nationalist Party, currently in opposition. Over the past 30 years, the country’s economy has undergone a dramatic transformation, with a decline in the wave of export-led manufacturing fuelled by foreign investment and technology that characterized the period between the fi rst national development plan (1959–1964) and the mid-1980s, and in which the labour-intensive and female worker–dominated sub-industries of textiles and clothing featured prominently. These have now been replaced by a diversifi ed service sector, including tourism, transshipment, fi nancial services, aircraft maintenance and electronic gaming. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/45230 |
ISBN: | 9782874525148 9782874525155 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - CenLS Scholarly Works - FacArtSoc |
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