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The State and the Labor Market

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Samuel Rosenberg

    1. Department of Economics, Roosevelt University, Chicago, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Studies in Work and Industry (SSWI)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Labor Market Restructuring in Europe and the United States

      • Samuel Rosenberg
      Pages 3-16

  3. Government Policy and the Labor Market

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-22
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    2. Government Policy and the Labor Market

      • Jill Rubery, Frank Wilkinson, Roger Tarling
      Pages 23-45

    3. Fissure and Discontinuity in U.S. Labor Management Relations

      • Michael J. Piore
      Pages 47-61

    4. The Restructuring of the Labor Market, the Labor Force, and the Nature of Employment Relations in the United States in the 1980s

      • Samuel Rosenberg
      Pages 63-85

    5. Employment Policy, the State, and the Unions in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Gerhard Bosch, Werner Sengenberger
      Pages 87-106

    6. Reregulating the Labor Market amid an Economic and Political Crisis

      • Lluis Fina, Alberto Meixide, Luis Toharia
      Pages 107-125

    7. The State, the Unions, and the Labor Market

      • Sebastiano Brusco, Paola Villa
      Pages 127-150

    8. State Regulation, Enterprise Behavior, and the Labor Market in Hungary, 1968–1983

      • Peter Galasi, György Sziráczki
      Pages 151-170

  4. Youth, Antidiscrimination, and Working-Time Policies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-173
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    2. Youth Interventions, Job Substitution, and Trade Union Policy in Great Britain, 1976–1986

      • Paul Ryan
      Pages 175-196

    3. The Reagan Administration and the Regulation of Labor

      • Marilyn Power
      Pages 197-206

    4. Work-Sharing Public Policy in France, 1981–1986

      • Annie Gauvin, François Michon
      Pages 207-220

    5. Part-Time Employment

      • Anne Marie Berg
      Pages 221-231

  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. The State and the Labor Market

      • Samuel Rosenberg
      Pages 235-249

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 251-258
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About this book

In the two decades before the mid-1970s, macroeconomic policies in Western Europe were frequently accompanied by policies of direct wage restraint in the pursuit of acceptable levels of employment, inflation, and international competitiveness. The same period witnessed a proliferation of social welfare programs, elements of which were sometimes commingled with demand management and pay policies in trilateral bargaining processes involving gov­ ernments, unions, and employers. In the wake of such subsequent develop­ ments as the oil price shocks, sharply intensified international competition, and slowing of growth rates in productivity, however, governments resorted more frequently to deflationist macroeconomic policies and also to policies aimed directly at increasing IIflexibility" in wage determination and the de­ ployment of labor by the firm. It is a major theme of this very interesting book that these labor market policies have not been demonstrably (or at least sufficiently) effective in com­ bating the high rates of unemployment which have been prevalent in most of the countries of Western Europe since the late 1970s. This theme emerges from the chapters on labor market developments and policies in six countries of Western Europe, the United States, and Hungary (a welcome addition to this type of scholarship), as well as another set of chapters'devoted to specific policy areas. In effect, Samuel Rosenberg and his colleagues-an interna­ tional team of nineteen economists and sociologists-are repeating in con­ crete terms a sermon preached by Keynes over a half century ago.

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  • Department of Economics, Roosevelt University, Chicago, USA

    Samuel Rosenberg

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