The democratic class struggle

288 Pages·2019·30.859 MB·English

by  Walter Korpi

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THE DEMOCRATIC CLASS
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THE DEMOCRATIC CLASS
STRUGGLE
WALTER KORPI
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THE DEMOCRATIC
CLASS STRUGGLE
Walter Korpi
First published in 1983
by Routledge & Kegan Paul plc
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Korpi, Walter.
The democratic class struggle.
Bibliography : p.
Includes index.
1. Political participation – Sweden. 2. Trade-unions
– Sweden – Political activity. 3. Strikes and lockouts.
4. Social conflict. 5. Welfare state. I. Title.
JN 7945. K66 1983 324'. 042'. 09485 82-23183
ISBN 0-7100-9436-1
CONTENTS
Preface vii
1 Introduction: Class, power and social change 1
2 The democratic class struggle 7
3 Working-class mobilization 26
4 Electoral participation 53
5 Social roots of party preferences 83
6 Electoral geography 110
7 Voters on the move 130
8 The politics of industrial conflict 159
9 Social policy 184
10 After the historical compromise 208
Appendix 237
Notes 244
Bibliography 263
Subject index 273
Name index

P R E F A CE
This book combines a case study of class relations, politics and
voting in Sweden with a comparative analysis of distributive
conflicts and politics in eighteen OECD countries. Its under-
lying theoretical theme is the development of class relations in
free-enterprise or capitalist democracies. The different chapters
of the book are connected more by their relation to common
theoretical issues than by a continuous narrative thread. In a
few chapters I have drawn on previously published materials.
The comparative analysis of industrial conflict presented in
Chapter 8 as well as the cross-national data introduced in
Chapter 3 derive from a research project carried out in
collaboration with Michael Shalev of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. Our collaboration started during a contemporaneous
sojourn on the shore of Lake Mendota in Wisconsin. I wish to
thank Michael for intellectual stimulation, generous friendship
and unspared energy.
Among my colleagues at the Swedish Institute for Social
Research I want to give my special thanks to Christian Berggren,
Ulla Carlstedt, Eva Carlsson, Robert Erikson, Anne-Maj Folmer-
Hansen, Sven E. Olsson, Eleanor Rapier, Miljan Vuksanović
and Eskil Wadensjö for advice and assistance. I have benefited
from valuable comments on the manuscript made by Olof Frändén,
Olof Petersson, Levi Svenningsson and Rune Åberg. My thanks
are also due to Karin Busch, Sören Holmberg, Hans Nordlöf
and Staffan Sollander for helpful assistance in the data analysis
and to Diane Sainsbury for the translation into English as well as
for perceptive comments.
The work with this book has been partly supported by re-
search grants from the Swedish Delegation for Social Research
and from the Bank of Sweden Tercentennial Foundation.
W.K.
Stockholm
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