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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stråth, Bo, 1943-

Series:

Routledge explorations in economic history ; 2.

Routledge explorations in economic history, 1359-7892 ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor market--History--20th century--Case studies.

Labor market.

Unemployment--History--20th century--Case studies.

Unemployment.

Industrial relations--History--20th century--Case studies.

Industrial relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There have been dramatic shifts in the behaviour of labour markets and the conduct of industrial relations in the last century. This volume explores these changes in the context of four very different societies: Germany, Sweden, Britain and Japan. However, despite their manifest differences, the author demonstrates that for long periods their labour markets were similar in many crucial respects. The book discusses: * the failure of neo-corporatism in Britain in the 1970's and the subsequent rise of Thatcherism; * the rise of Japan as a model for orderly industrial relations in the 1970

Contents:

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 employers The state and the political embeddedness of industrial relations; The concept of rationalisation: from struggle to compromise; The compromises of the 1930's; 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 1930's; Continued fragmentation

JAPAN Government 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 1970's; CONCLUSIONS; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-264) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-78627-1

1-280-32433-3

1-134-78628-X

0-585-46017-5

0-203-20911-7

9780203209110

OCLC:

559704863