Labour movements, employers, and the state : conflict and co-operation in Britain and Sweden
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Labour movements, employers, and the state : conflict and co-operation in Britain and Sweden
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991
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Bibliography: p. [335]-357
Includes index
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Description
This comparative study uses Barrington Moore's notion of `suppressed historical alternatives' to reassess theories of industrial conflict, class organization, and state intervention. It explores the origins of organizational differences in the emergence of labour movements and the employer counter-attack, emphasizing the strength of Sweden's neglected craft unions and the forgotten attempts by British unions to build Swedish style national federations. It examines
the strong tendencies towards state control in Sweden and repeated British efforts to establish joint central regulation, which have been similarly overlooked. Unfashionable institutionalist explorations of the Swedish labour peace are defended but it is also argued that the Swedish system of
regulation was self-undermining. The book analyses the failure of corporatist integration in both countries and the ensuing struggle between left and right alternatives. The attempt to bring about economic and industrial democracy in Sweden, the decline of the British unions, and current tendencies towards a neo-liberal convergence, are all discussed.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Institutions, the state, and capitalism
- Part I: Industrialization, Democratization, and Class Organization: The formation of labour movements
- The employer counter-attack
- Part II: Towards Central Regulation: Towards joint central regulation in Britain
- State regulation and joint central regulation in Sweden
- Part III: Industrial Conflict, Institutions and Corporatism: Institutional inadequacy, corporatism, and industrial conflict in post-war Britain
- Institutional adequacy, corporatism, and industrial conflict in Sweden
- Part IV: Capitalism, Neo-liberalism, and Socialism: Capitalism and neo-liberalism in Britain
- Capitalism and Socialism in Sweden
- Summary and concluding discussion
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