Download full text
(151.3Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-222612
Exports for your reference manager
Wage Determination, Socio-Economic Regulation and the State
[journal article]
Abstract This article examines changes in socio-economic regulation and the role of the state in the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Sweden and Germany, against the background of the theoretical debate on transition from Fordist to post-Fordist growth stra... view more
This article examines changes in socio-economic regulation and the role of the state in the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Sweden and Germany, against the background of the theoretical debate on transition from Fordist to post-Fordist growth strategies. The first focus is on reforms in the labour market and the welfare state, and their effect on the political and social processes through which wage norms are generalized in a national economy. The second is on the changing role of the state as an institutional form. The article starts from some basic assumptions of the regulation approach and delineates the status of the concepts of wage relation and wage determination, on the one hand, and the state, on the other. It then considers the debate over modifications to these concepts in the transition from Fordist to post-Fordist growth strategies, drawing on the trajectories of the five countries.... view less
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 327-346
Journal
European Journal of Industrial Relations, 11 (2005) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680105057214
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)