TY - BOOK ID - 4815558 TI - Varieties of liberalization and the new politics of social solidarity PY - 2014 SN - 9781107679566 9781107053168 1107053161 1107679567 9781107282001 1139990675 1139986058 1107282004 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Labor market KW - Labor policy KW - Industrial relations KW - Capitalism KW - Marché du travail KW - Travail KW - Travail, Politique du KW - Relations industrielles KW - Capitalisme KW - Social aspects KW - Aspect social KW - Politique gouvernementale KW - Libéralisme économique KW - Politique du travail KW - Solidarité KW - #SBIB:316.334.2A470 KW - Market economy KW - Economics KW - Profit KW - Capital KW - Labor KW - State and labor KW - Economic policy KW - Employees KW - Market, Labor KW - Supply and demand for labor KW - Markets KW - Arbeidssociologie: het sociaal-economisch overheidsbeleid: algemeen KW - Government policy KW - Supply and demand KW - Marché du travail KW - Relations professionnelles KW - Solidarité. KW - Etats-Unis KW - Allemagne KW - Danemark KW - Suède KW - Pays-Bas UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4815558 AB - This book examines contemporary changes in labor market institutions in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands, focusing on developments in industrial relations, vocational education and training, and labor market policy. It finds that there are in fact distinct varieties of liberalization associated with very different distributive outcomes. Most scholarship equates liberal capitalism with inequality and coordinated capitalism with higher levels of social solidarity. However, this study explains why the institutions of coordinated capitalism and egalitarian capitalism coincided and complemented one another in the 'Golden Era' of postwar development in the 1950s and 1960s, and why they no longer do so. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this study reveals that the successful defense of the institutions traditionally associated with coordinated capitalism has often been a recipe for increased inequality due to declining coverage and dualization. Conversely, it argues that some forms of labor market liberalization are perfectly compatible with continued high levels of social solidarity and indeed may be necessary to sustain it. ER -