Fair Shares : : Unions, Pay, and Politics in Sweden and West Germany / / Peter A. Swenson.

Conflict between labor and capital reflects the competitive and conflict-laden relations within the working class itself, Peter Swenson maintains. Fair Shares examines the internal conflicts of organized labor regarding distribution of wages in order to explain both union leaders' market-struct...

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Fair Shares : Unions, Pay, and Politics in Sweden and West Germany / Peter A. Swenson.
Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Beyond The Wage Struggle -- Part I: Pay Structure And The Moral Economy -- 1. Pay Norms and Union Leadership -- 2. Centralized Unions: Shaping the Moral Economy -- 3. Rank-and-File Rebels: Enforcing the Moral Economy -- PART II: UNIONS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 4. The Wage Policy Trilemma -- 5. Resolving the Trilemma. Unions in Sweden -- 6. Divided by the Trilemma: Unions in West Germany -- Conclusion: The Terms of Solidarity -- APPENDIX: Relative Pay in Swedish and West German Industry, 1960—1977 -- Bibliography -- Index
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Conflict between labor and capital reflects the competitive and conflict-laden relations within the working class itself, Peter Swenson maintains. Fair Shares examines the internal conflicts of organized labor regarding distribution of wages in order to explain both union leaders' market-structuring objectives in the "political economy", and their imperative to shape and fulfill workers' notions of pay fairness in the "moral economy". Swenson develops an innovative theoretical approach to labor politics through a detailed comparative analysis of union centralization and collective bargaining in Sweden and Germany since the turn of the century.To create solidarity and overcome workers' opposition to centralized control of the labor movement, Swenson argues, union leaders depend heavily on moral appeals concerning fair pair distribution and on success in fulfilling workers' expectation of fairness. Swenson interprets union politics as the attempt to overcome what he calls the "wage policy trilemma"
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Labor unions Germany (West).
Labor unions Sweden.
Profit-sharing Germany (West).
Profit-sharing Sweden.
Wages Germany (West).
Wages Sweden.
Labor History.
Political Science & Political History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy. bisacsh
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Fair Shares : Unions, Pay, and Politics in Sweden and West Germany /
Cornell Studies in Political Economy
Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Abbreviations --
Introduction: Beyond The Wage Struggle --
Part I: Pay Structure And The Moral Economy --
1. Pay Norms and Union Leadership --
2. Centralized Unions: Shaping the Moral Economy --
3. Rank-and-File Rebels: Enforcing the Moral Economy --
PART II: UNIONS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY --
4. The Wage Policy Trilemma --
5. Resolving the Trilemma. Unions in Sweden --
6. Divided by the Trilemma: Unions in West Germany --
Conclusion: The Terms of Solidarity --
APPENDIX: Relative Pay in Swedish and West German Industry, 1960—1977 --
Bibliography --
Index
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title_alt Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Abbreviations --
Introduction: Beyond The Wage Struggle --
Part I: Pay Structure And The Moral Economy --
1. Pay Norms and Union Leadership --
2. Centralized Unions: Shaping the Moral Economy --
3. Rank-and-File Rebels: Enforcing the Moral Economy --
PART II: UNIONS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY --
4. The Wage Policy Trilemma --
5. Resolving the Trilemma. Unions in Sweden --
6. Divided by the Trilemma: Unions in West Germany --
Conclusion: The Terms of Solidarity --
APPENDIX: Relative Pay in Swedish and West German Industry, 1960—1977 --
Bibliography --
Index
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contents Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Abbreviations --
Introduction: Beyond The Wage Struggle --
Part I: Pay Structure And The Moral Economy --
1. Pay Norms and Union Leadership --
2. Centralized Unions: Shaping the Moral Economy --
3. Rank-and-File Rebels: Enforcing the Moral Economy --
PART II: UNIONS IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY --
4. The Wage Policy Trilemma --
5. Resolving the Trilemma. Unions in Sweden --
6. Divided by the Trilemma: Unions in West Germany --
Conclusion: The Terms of Solidarity --
APPENDIX: Relative Pay in Swedish and West German Industry, 1960—1977 --
Bibliography --
Index
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