LEADER 04487nam 22007572 450 001 9910779167703321 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a1-139-36626-2 010 $a1-107-23096-9 010 $a1-280-66412-6 010 $a1-139-37883-X 010 $a9786613641052 010 $a1-139-37597-0 010 $a1-139-08829-7 010 $a1-139-37740-X 010 $a1-139-38026-5 010 $a1-139-37198-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000103619 035 $a(EBL)880655 035 $a(OCoLC)794327673 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000678722 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11469964 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678722 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10727863 035 $a(PQKB)11197096 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139088299 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880655 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565110 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL364105 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880655 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000103619 100 $a20141103d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe political construction of business interests $ecoordination, growth, and equality /$fCathie Jo Martin, Boston University, Duane Swank, Marquette University$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 307 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in comparative politics 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-60364-1 311 $a1-107-01866-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Collective political engagement and the welfare state; 2. The political origins of coordinated capitalism; 3. Party conflict and the origins of Danish labor market coordination; 4. British experiments in national employers' organization; 5. Sectional parties and divided business in the United States; 6. The origins of sector coordination in Germany; 7. Twenty-first century breakdown? Challenges to coordination in the postindustrial age; 8. Institutional sources of employers' preferences for social policy; 9. Employers, coordination, and active labor market policy in postindustrial Denmark; 10. Employers and active labor market policy in post-industrial Britain; 11. The failure of coordination and rise of dualism in Germany; 12. The political foundations of redistribution and equality; Conclusion: Social solidarity after the crisis of finance capitalism. 330 $aMany societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments in countries with strong peak business associations, that help members form collective preferences and realize policy goals in labor market negotiations. Politicians, with incentives shaped by governmental structures, took the initiative in association-building and those that created the strongest associations were motivated to evade labor radicalism and to preempt parliamentary democratization. Sweeping in its historical and cross-national reach, the book builds on original archival data, interviews and cross-national quantitative analyses. The research has important implications for the construction of business as a social class and powerful ramifications for equality, welfare state restructuring and social solidarity. 410 0$aCambridge studies in comparative politics. 606 $aIndustrial policy$vCase studies 606 $aIndustrial relations$vCase studies 606 $aManpower policy$vCase studies 606 $aCorporate state$vCase studies 615 0$aIndustrial policy 615 0$aIndustrial relations 615 0$aManpower policy 615 0$aCorporate state 676 $a338.9 686 $aPOL000000$2bisacsh 700 $aMartin$b Cathie J.$0127617 702 $aSwank$b Duane 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779167703321 996 $aThe political construction of business interests$93809815 997 $aUNINA