Fair shares : unions, pay, and politics in Sweden and West Germany /

Fair shares : unions, pay, and politics in Sweden and West Germany /

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Author / Creator:Swenson, Peter.
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989.
Description:1 online resource (x, 260 pages)
Language:English
Series:Cornell studies in political economy
Cornell studies in political economy.
Subject:
Labor unions -- Sweden.
Labor unions -- Germany (West)
Wages -- Sweden.
Wages -- Germany (West)
Profit-sharing -- Sweden.
Profit-sharing -- Germany (West)
Labor unions.
Profit-sharing.
Wages.
Germany (West)
Sweden.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11678071
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ISBN:9781501717673
1501717677
0801421357
9780801421358
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index.
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Summary: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"
Other form:Print version: Swenson, Peter. Fair shares. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989 0801421357

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