Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 February 1999
- ISBN 9780198742012
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages218 pages
- Size 242x163x17 mm
- Weight 461 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short description:
The Golden Age of postwar capitalism has been eclipsed, and with it seemingly also the possibility of harmonizing equality and welfare with efficiency and jobs. In his first major book since The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Europe's leading analyst of the welfare state presents a provocative examination of postindustrial economies at the end of the twentieth century.
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The Golden Age of postwar capitalism has been eclipsed, and with it seemingly also the possibility of harmonizing equality and welfare with efficiency and jobs. Most analyses believe that the emerging postindustrial society is overdetermined by massive, convergent forces, such as tertiarization, new technologies, or globalization, all conspiring to make welfare states unsustainable in the future.
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies takes a second, more sociological and more institutional, look at the driving forces of economic transformation. What, as a result, stands out is postindustrial diversity, not convergence. Macroscopic, global trends are undoubtedly powerful, yet their influence is easily rivalled by domestic institutional traditions, by the kind of welfare regime that, some generations ago, was put in place. It is, however, especially the family economy that hold the key as to what kind of postindustrial model will emerge, and to how evolving tradeoffs will be managed.
Twentieth-century economic analysis depended on a set of sociological assumptions that, now, are invalid. Hence, to better grasp what drives today's economy, we must begin with its social foundations.
well worth reading as a highly informative analysis of the diversity of the social foundations of postindustrial economies.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: Varieties of Welfare Capitalism
The Democratic Class Struggle Revisited
Social Risks and Wefare States
The Household Economy
Comparative Welfare Regimes Re-examined
PART TWO: The New Political Economy
The Structural Bases of Postindustrial Employment
Managing Divergent Employment Dilemmas
PART THREE: Welfare Capitalism Recast?
New Social Risks in Old Welfare States
Recasting Wefare Regimes for a Postindustrial Era
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