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Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity

Thelen, Kathleen·2014·Cambridge University Press eBooks

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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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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
DOI: 10.1017/cbo9781107282001
OpenAlex: W2058145111
Cited by: 1,065
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FWCI: 110.48
Type: book
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 66 d)
Locations: Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
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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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