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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Political Economy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of 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