Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity

by Kathleen Thelen

Book Overview

This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in three arenas - industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. While confirming a broad, shared liberalizing trend, it finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107053161
• ISBN13: 9781107053168
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"