The organisation of labour markets : modernity, culture, and governance in Germany, Sweden, Britain, and Japan

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; MODERNISATION, CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS: DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORIES IN ONE HEURISTIC FRAMEWORK; Comparison and theorisation; Modernisation and crisis; The periods of crisis: an ideal type; Culture and power over problem resolution; GERMANY; The master-of-the-house metaphor; The workers and their organisations; From compromise to conflict; The concept of rationalisation and the unemployment question; The Volk metaphor; The social market economy; The emergence and erosion of a liberal corporatist order; SWEDEN

The open cartel strategy of the unions and the flexible response of the employersThe state and the political embeddedness of industrial relations; The concept of rationalisation: from struggle to compromise; The compromises of the 1930s; The active labour market policy; The strains in the model and the dissolution; UNITED KINGDOM; Labour-intensive mode of production; The perceptions of the class concept and the political culture; Liberal Labourism and reformism; The failure of a compromise on the concept of rationalisation; Response to the unemployment of the 1930s; Continued fragmentation

JAPANGovernment and industry before World War I; The mobile workers and the weak unions; Management and government strategies; The family metaphor; The second outburst of workers' radicalism and the employers' double problem; The revolutionary upsurge and the third containment of labour; Job security and company unions; The restructuring of the 1970s; CONCLUSIONS; Notes; References; Index;

JAPANGovernment and industry before World War I; The mobile workers and the weak unions; Management and government strategies; The family metaphor; The second outburst of workers' radicalism and the employers' double problem; The revolutionary upsurge and the third containment of labour; Job security and company unions; The restructuring of the 1970s; CONCLUSIONS; Notes; References; Index

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