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Author Swenson, Peter

Title Fair shares : unions, pay, and politics in Sweden and West Germany / Peter Swenson
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (x, 260 pages)
Series Cornell studies in political economy
Cornell studies in political economy.
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
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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-252) and index
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Subject Labor unions -- Sweden
Labor unions -- Germany (West)
Wages -- Sweden
Wages -- Germany (West)
Profit-sharing -- Sweden
Profit-sharing -- Germany (West)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy.
Labor unions
Profit-sharing
Wages
Gewerkschaft
Lohnpolitik
Lohngerechtigkeit
Gewerkschaftspolitik
Fackliga organisationer.
Lönepolitik.
Löner.
Germany (West)
Sweden
Schweden
Deutschland Bundesrepublik
Deutschland (Bundesrepublik)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501717673
1501717677