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Strong Governments, Precarious Workers - Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization (Hardcover)
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Strong Governments, Precarious Workers - Labor Market Policy in the Era of Liberalization (Hardcover)
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Why do some European welfare states protect unemployed and
inadequately employed workers ("outsiders") from economic
uncertainty better than others? Philip Rathgeb's study of labor
market policy change in three somewhat-similar small
states-Austria, Denmark, and Sweden-explores this fundamental
question. He does so by examining the distribution of power between
trade unions and political parties, attempting to bridge these two
lines of research-trade unions and party politics-that, with few
exceptions, have advanced without a mutual exchange. Inclusive
trade unions have high political stakes in the protection of
outsiders, because they incorporate workers at risk of unemployment
into their representational outlook. Yet, the impact of union
preferences has declined over time, with a shift in the balance of
class power from labor to capital across the Western world.
National governments have accordingly prioritized flexibility for
employers over the social protection of outsiders. As a result,
organized labor can only protect outsiders when governments are
reliant on union consent for successful consensus mobilization.
When governments have a united majority of seats, on the other
hand, they are strong enough to exclude unions. Strong Governments,
Precarious Workers calls into question the electoral responsiveness
of national governments-and thus political parties-to the social
needs of an increasingly numerous group of precarious workers. In
the end, Rathgeb concludes that the weaker the government, the
stronger the capacity of organized labor to enhance the social
protection of precarious workers.
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