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Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
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This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. 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.
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“In these cases, ' a strong defense of social solidarity -a strong internal ' community of fate ' - seems to have come bundled with strict boundaries to the outside ' (Thelen, (2014): 200).”
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- Authors
- Thelen, K.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Thelen, Kathleen
- ORCID
- Thelen, Kathleen
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2014-03-31
- OpenAlex
- W2058145111
- Cited by
- 1,065
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 76 · 2025: 89 · 2024: 83 · 2023: 86 · 2022: 75 · 2021: 130 · 2020: 114 · 2019: 90 · 2018: 97 · 2017: 89 · 2016: 69 · 2015: 55 · 2014: 12
- FWCI
- 110.48
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Labor Movements and Unions
- Keywords
- labour market deregulation, social solidarity, coordinated capitalism, liberal capitalism, labor relations, vocational education and training, labour market policy, income inequality, dualization, post-war welfare state
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