Comparative Political Economy of Work

Comparative political economy and labour process theory: toward a synthesis / Matt Vidal and Marco Hauptmeier -- Part I. Systemic Problems of Advanced Capitalism. Varieties of capitalism reconsidered: learning from the Great Recession and its aftermath / Jason Heyes, Paul Lewis and Ian Clark -- Do the UK and Australia have sustainable business models? / John Buchanan, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams and Serena Yu -- Incoherence and dysfunctionality in the institutional regulation of capitalism / Matt Vidal -- Value chains and networks in services: crossing borders, crossing sectors, crossing regimes? / Bettina Haidinger, Annika Schönauer, Jörg Flecker and Ursula Holtgrewe -- Part II. National Institutions. Greening steel work: varieties of capitalism, the environmental agenda and innovating for the greening of the labour process / Claire Evans and Dean Stroud -- Board-level employee representatives in Norway, Sweden and Denmark: differently powerless or equally important? / Inger Marie Hagen -- Ideas and institutions: the evolution of employment relations in the Spanish and German auto industry / Marco Hauptmeier and Glenn Morgan -- Collapse of collective action? Employment flexibility, union membership and strikes in European companies / Giedo Jansen and Agnes Akkerman -- Part III. Within-Country Diversity. Coming to terms with firm-level diversity: an investigation of flexibility and innovative capability profiles in the transformed 'German model' / Stefan Kirchner and Jürgen -- Coordinated divergences: changes in collective bargaining systems and their labour market implications in Korea / Hyunji Kwon and Sanghoon Lim -- The state and employment in liberal market economies: industrial policy in the UK pharmaceutical and food manufacturing sectors / Enda Hannon -- Does political congruence help us understand trade union renewal? / Martin Upchurch, Richard Croucher and Matt Flynn -- Quality of work in the cleaning industry: a complex picture based on sectoral regulation and customer-driven conditions / Vassil Kirov and Monique Ramioul -- Part IV. International Organizations and Liberalization. Posted migration, spaces of exception, and the politics of labour relations in the European construction industry / Nathan Lillie, Ines Wagner and Lisa Berntsen -- Employment relations under external pressure: Italian and Spanish reforms during the Great Recession / Guglielmo Meardi.