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008 130930s2014 enka b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781107053168 (hardback)
020 $a9781107679566 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aHD5764.A6$bT54 2014
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084 $aPOL023000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aThelen, Kathleen Ann.
245 10 $aVarieties of liberalization and the new politics of social solidarity /$cKathleen Thelen.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$bCambridge University Press,$c2014.
300 $axxiii, 250 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aCambridge studies in comparative politics
520 $a"This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the "Golden Era" of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 213-242) and index.
650 0 $aLabor market$xSocial aspects$zEurope.
650 0 $aLabor market$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLabor policy$zEurope.
650 0 $aLabor policy$zUnited States.
650 0 $aIndustrial relations$zEurope.
650 0 $aIndustrial relations$zUnited States.
650 0 $aCapitalism$xSocial aspects$zEurope.
650 0 $aCapitalism$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/53168/cover/9781107053168.jpg