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Title: Capitalists Against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden by Peter A. Swenson ISBN: 0-19-514297-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Comment: "Capitalists Against Markets highlights the important role played by employers in the creation of the American and Swedish welfare states. In a brilliant and original analysis, Swenson shows how employer strategies--solidarism in Sweden and segmentalism in the U.S.--were rooted in each country's economic development and gave rise to distinctive public programs. The book takes on both rational choice and social democratic arguments: employers acted rationally, Swenson shows, but their choices were historically constrained and far from being reflexively anti-labor or anti-government, right down to the 1990s. Adroitly blending theory, history, and politics, Swenson has created a masterpiece of comparative scholarship. "
Sanford M. Jacoby, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA
"Capitalists against Markets is a magnificent follow-up on the author's much acclaimed Fair Shares. In this new book, Peter Swenson proposes a much needed correction to the mainstream - and myopic - focus on the role of labor movements in the making of welfare politics. He offers both rich history and strong analysis of how capitalists helped give shape and form to the welfare state and to labor market policies in Sweden and the United States, two countries that exemplify the welfare state extremes. It is both impressive and path-breaking scholarship and it will no doubt provoke controversy. It certainly should, as it forces us social scientists to take the politics of capitalists far more seriously than has been our want."
Gosta Esping-Andersen, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
"This is a book of great importance. Marshalling detailed historical evidence, Swenson persuasively challenges the view that employers were uniformly hostile to the creation of the welfare state by showing that this was untrue even in the United States. As an added bonus, it is quite a gripping read."
David Soskice, Research Professor of Political Science, Duke University
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Title: Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage by Peter A. Hall, David W. Soskice ISBN: 0199247757 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Title: Why We Need a New Welfare State by Gosta Esping-Andersen, Duncan Gallie, Anton Hemerijck, John Myles ISBN: 0199256438 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets by Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens ISBN: 0226356477 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis. by John L. Campbell, Ove K. Pedersen ISBN: 0691070873 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States by Duane Swank ISBN: 0521001447 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 11 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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