Social institutions and economic performance : studies of industrial relations in advanced capitalist economies
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Bibliographic Information
Social institutions and economic performance : studies of industrial relations in advanced capitalist economies
Sage, 1992
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 47 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [232]-243
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Wolfgang Streeck studies labour and capital in advanced capitalist economies and offers new insights into the social and political bases of economic performance. The chapters of the book examine the institutional conditions for a high-skill and high-wage economy; the social regulation of employment contracts; differences in the structure of interest associations of business and labour; the organization of small businesses in Germany; co-determination in German industry; the competitive success of the German automobile industry; and the influence of European integration on interest representation in Europe. Proceeding from the insight that markets and rational economic action perform best if embedded in culturally and politically generated opportunities and constraints, Streeck offers a rationale for positive political intervention in post-socialist capitalist market economies. The book is intended for researchers, academics and students of political economy, political science, industrial relations, business and management, and organization studies and sociology.
Table of Contents
- Productive constraints on the institutional conditions of diversified quality production
- revising status and contract - pluralism, corporatism and flexibility
- interest heterogeneity and organizing capacity - two class logics of collective action?
- the logics of associative action and the territorial organization of interests - the case of German Handwerk
- co-determination - the fourth decade
- successful adjustment to turbulent markets - the German automobile industry in the 1970s and 1980s
- from national corporatism to transnational pluralism - organized interests in the Single European Market, (with Phillipe C. Schmitter).
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