Post Industrial Labour Markets or Globalization of Capital and the Nation State

Post-Industrial Labour Markets: Profiles of North America and Scandinavia

Author: Thomas P Boj

In nearly all OECD countries, the labour market has been in flux in recent decades. This book examines the labour markets and the institutional frameworks that condition their functioning in four different countries: Canada, the United States, Denmark and Sweden. Through a comparative study of these cases, the book discusses the nation-specific patterns that exist in a world that seems to become increasingly subject to common social and economic development.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	List of contributors
	Preface and acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	The institutional framework of national labour markets	17
2	Labour movement and industrial relations	19
3	Labour law and employment regulation	51
4	The welfare state and labour market policies	77
Pt. II	Labour market outcomes and welfare regimes	97
5	Labour force and employment: age and gender differences	99
6	Towards a post-industrial service society	124
7	Occupational changes and education	147
8	Patterns of unemployment	169
9	Flexibility and employment insecurity	186
10	Wage formation, institutions and unemployment	213
Pt. III	Comparisons with other OECD countries	239
11	Post-industrial profiles: North American, Scandinavian and other Western labour markets	241
	Notes	262
	References	267
	Index	287

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Globalization of Capital and the Nation-State: Imperialism, Class Struggle, and the State in the Age of Global Capitalism

Author: Berch Berberoglu

This book provides a cogent analysis of the globalization process and the role of the imperial state in twentieth-century capitalist expansion on a world scale. It examines the development of capitalism and the capitalist state across national boundaries and traces the evolution of imperialism and inter-imperialist rivalries that have come to define the nature of the world political economy.