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3 results in Cambridge Studies in Modern Political Economies

Changing Boundaries of the Political
  • Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe
  • Edited by Charles S. Maier
  • Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    28 August 1987
  • An understanding of the nature of advanced industrial economies is derived from this extensive investigation of the ways in which the boundaries of the political have changed in Europe since the 1960s.

In Search of Stability
  • Explorations in Historical Political Economy
  • Charles S. Maier
  • Published online:
    15 December 2009
    Print publication:
    29 January 1988
  • In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy ponders the issue of how Western industrial societies overcame major challenges to political and economic stability in the twentieth century. Successive essays ask: what ideological messages did American influence transmit to Europe after World War I, then again after World War II? Did Nazis and Italian fascists share an economic ideology or impose a unique economic system in the interwar period and during World War II? How do their accomplishments stack up comparatively against those of the liberal democracies? After 1945, what was the relationship between concepts of productivity and class division? How have the major experiences of twentieth-century inflation arisen out of class and interest-group rivalry? Most generally, what has been the representation of interests in capitalist political economies?

Work and Politics
  • The Division of Labour in Industry
  • Charles F. Sabel
  • Published online:
    13 October 2009
    Print publication:
    30 July 1982
  • Work and Politics develops a historical and comparative sociology of workplace relations in industrial capitalist societies. Professor Sabel argues that the system of mass production using specialized machines and mostly unskilled workers was the result of the distribution of power and wealth in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Great Britain and the United States, not of an inexorable logic of technological advance. Once in place, this system created the need for workers with systematically different ideas about the acquisition of skill and the desirability of long-term employment. Professor Sabel shows how capitalists have played on naturally existing division in the workforce in order to match workers with diverse ambitions to jobs in different parts of the labor market. But he also demonstrates the limits, different from work group to work group, of these forms of collaboration.