Balancing the scales: labour incorporation and the politics of growth model transformation

The Comparative Political Economy of Sustainability Transitions: Varying Obstacles, Accelerants and Power in National Capitalisms

“…Distinctive economic strengths mean differing constellations of economic interests. There tends to be conflicts between economic stakeholders as they each formulate strategies to accomplish their own interests, but fragile and provisional coalitions can be formed between economic stakeholders (Hess 2014;Hall 2019;Rosamond 2019;Bondy and Maggor 2024;May et al 2024). The constellation of vested interests supporting prevailing economic trajectories can be thought of as 'growth coalitions', that have developed over time because of them (Baccaro and Pontusson 2022).…”