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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449757503321
• Autore: Strath Bo <1943, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• ISBN: 1-280-32433-3; 1-134-78628-X; 0-585-46017-5; 0-203-20911-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Collana: Routledge explorations in economic history, , 1359-7892 ; ; 2
• Disciplina: 331.12
• Soggetti: Labor market - History - 20th century; Unemployment - History - 20th century; Industrial relations - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-264) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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