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Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies

Esping-Andersen, Gosta·1999
DOI 10.1093/0198742002.001.0001
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The Golden Age of post‐war capitalism has been eclipsed, and with it seemingly also the possibility of harmonizing equality and welfare with efficiency and jobs. Most analyses believe that the emerging post‐industrial society is overdetermined by massive, convergent forces, such as tertiarization, new technologies, or globalization, all conspiring to make welfare states unsustainable in the future. This book takes a second, more sociological and institutional look at the driving forces of economic transformation. What stands out as a result is that there is post‐industrial diversity rather than convergence. Macroscopic, global trends are undoubtedly powerful, yet their influence is easily rivalled by domestic institutional traditions, by the kind of welfare regime that, some generations ago, was put in place. It is, however, especially the family economy that holds the key as to what kind of post‐industrial model will emerge, and to how evolving trade‐offs will be managed. Twentieth‐century economic analysis depended on a set of sociological assumptions that now are invalid. Hence, to grasp better what drives today's economy, it is necessary to begin with its social foundations. After an Introduction, the book is arranged in three parts: I, Varieties of Welfare Capitalism (four chapters); II, The New Political Economy (two chapters); and III, Welfare Capitalism Recast? (two chapters).

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  • The effects of policy variables on female labour force participation vary across countries and welfare states, because welfare states assign different roles to men and women and to public policies in providing welfare to families.

    “specific measures are likely to have different effects in different countries/welfare states.For instance, the effect of policies will vary across Welfare States which assign different roles to men and women and to public policies in providing welfare to families (Esping-Andersen, 1999 andThévenon, 2006).”

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  • In the 'Varieties of Capitalism' approach, production regimes are characterised by various processes of skill production and wage determination, as well as by varying degrees of employment protection legislation.

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  • Production regimes coincide with differences in organisations that provide social protection and welfare support to workers and their families.

    “It also coincides with differences in organisations that provide social protection and welfare support to workers and their families(Esping-Andersen, 1999;Estevez-Abe et al., 2001;and, Soskice, 2005).”

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Authors
Esping-Andersen, G.
Affiliations
University of Trento
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
1999-02-25
DOI
10.1093/0198742002.001.0001
OpenAlex
W2140930388
Cited by
6,253
References
1
Citations by year
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FWCI
249.93
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Economy and Marxism
Keywords
post-industrial economy, welfare capitalism, welfare state sustainability, economic transformation, tertiarization, globalization, household economy, institutional traditions, equality-efficiency trade-off, political economy

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