Gender, Class, and Varieties of Capitalism

Mandel, Hadas; Shalev, Michael

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“…Moreover, strong employment protection as well as the generous family benefit policies characteristic of the Nordic countries tend to intensify employer discrimination against women (Mandel and Shalev 2009a). The strong employment protection constrains employers' possibilities to lay-off, but this means employers also have difficulty in finding temporary replacements to employees on family leaves due to the specificity of the skills required.…”

Section: Gender Inequality and Job Quality: The Adverse Effects Of Inmentioning

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Abating inequalities? Job quality at the intersection of class and gender in Finland 1977–2013

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Section: Gender Inequality and Job Quality: The Adverse Effects Of Inmentioning

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“…Mandel and Shalev 2009a;Mandel 2012). According to this idea, it is women at the higher end of the skill continuum that are in an unfavorable position in the Nordic countries.…”

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Abating inequalities? Job quality at the intersection of class and gender in Finland 1977–2013

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“…While stimulating researchers to study the different life experience of doubly disadvantaged groups (e.g., Browne and Misra, 2003;Collins, 1999;hooks, 1984;, intersectionality has yet to be sufficiently translated into empirical studies that compare different groups of women across the class spectrum (McCall, 2005). Within the extensive and variegated research on welfare states and gender inequality, diversity among women is not commonly highlighted, despite recent calls to recognize its importance in this context (e.g., Esping-Andersen 2009; Mandel and Shalev, 2009a;O'Connor, Orloff and Shaver, 1999;Shalev, 2008;Warren, 2003;Williams and Boushey, 2010).…”

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Winners and Losers: The Consequences of Welfare State Policies for Gender Wage Inequality

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2010

European Sociological Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractCross-national studies of the impact of welfare states on gender inequality tend to overlook socioeconomic divisions among women. This paper challenges the implicit assumption that welfare states have uniform effects on the labour market attainments of all women, arguing that the impact of state intervention is necessarily conditioned by women's relative advantage or disadvantage in the labour market. Based on micro-datasets from 21 advanced countries, the findings suggest that welfare state policies interact with socioeconomic position in determining women's economic rewards, tending to penalize highly skilled women while benefiting the less-skilled. Highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of social policies in light of the particular groups they benefit, as well as their implications for other groups, the paper concludes that more research is needed to explore differentiated approaches to reconciling work and family, rather than addressing universal work-family tensions.1 Winners and Losers: The Contradictory Consequences of Welfare State Policies for Gender Wage InequalityThis study stresses the importance of class differences for cross-country comparisons of gender inequality in general, and for understanding the effect of welfare state policies on gender earnings inequality in particular. Acknowledging the role of class divisions among women, the study draws on insights from the feminist notion of intersectionality, which has become a major theme in feminist studies. While stimulating researchers to study the different life experience of doubly disadvantaged groups (e.g., Browne and Misra, 2003;Collins, 1999; hooks, 1984;, intersectionality has yet to be sufficiently translated into empirical studies that compare different groups of women across the class spectrum The notion of intersectionality has mainly been concerned with the unique experience of black (as opposed to white) women (e.g., Browne and Misra, 2003;Collins, 1999), whereas the literature on the welfare state and gender has focused mainly on comparing the situation of women (as opposed to men) in different institutional contexts. In emphasizing inequality on the basis of gender per se, this literature has primarily highlighted elements that unite, rather than split, women. As women of all societies and social groups share the universal tension between work and family, public policies aimed at easing women's access to independent sour...

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“…Just as different contributions in the broader comparative political economy literature have attempted to bring the state and politics (Schmidt, 2009;Howell, 2003), and gender (Estévez-Abe, 2006;Mandel and Shalev, 2009) back onto the comparative capitalisms research agenda, comparative IR/ER can serve to bring national employment relations, and the national particularities of the capital labour relation more broadly, back onto the VoC research agenda not just as an 'and also coordination problem for firms' but rather as significant explanatory variable in the discernment of liberal capitalist varieties.…”

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Varieties of Capitalism: A Critique

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2016

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Résumé de l'article L'analyse des « variétés du capitalisme » (VdC) est devenue l'approche dominante en analyse politique comparée et bénéficie d'un degré élevé d'attention et d'application dans des disciplines extérieures à la science politique et la sociologie. En effet, cette approche a connu un succès notoire dans le domaine des relations industrielles et des relations d'emploi comparées. Cet article propose une évaluation critique de l'importance du paradigme VdC dans ce secteur. Entre autres, il y est soutenu que l'approche VdC, telle que présentement articulée, a peu à apporter aux spécialistes de notre domaine parce que ses concepts théoriques fondamentaux et ses postulats méthodologiques ne permettent pas la prise en compte du changement.L'article débute par un résumé des problèmes courants rencontrés par les chercheurs en économie politique et en relations industrielles comparées lorsqu'ils cherchent à rendre compte du changement à l'intérieur des contraintes posées par le paradigme VdC. Ici, l'accent est mis sur les limites imposées lorsque le niveau national est privilégié ainsi que les problèmes engendrés lors d'un recours important à une méthodologie statique comparée, elle-même imprégnée des concepts d'équilibre et de chocs exogènes. Puis, l'article va audelà de ces limitations courantes reconnues et soutient que l'importation d'une terminologie en provenance de la théorie économique néoclassique -à partir de laquelle l'énoncé initial du VdC établit sa référence fondatrice -a un effet réducteur et ajoutent encore plus de confusion à la démarche d'analyse comparée, notamment à cause de l'usage de la notion d'avantages comparées, de la théorie néoclassique de la firme d'Oliver Williamson, du recours à la distinction entre marché parfait et imparfait en économie néoclassique ainsi qu'à cause de la distinction floue entretenue entre firmes, marchés et réseaux.En conclusion, nous soutenons que l'approche VdC, de par son accent étroit mis sur la firme et ses problèmes de coordination, sert à légitimer l'idée que les relations industrielles traditionnelles mettent l'accent sur les relations de travail (entre employeurs et travailleurs) ainsi qu'à cautionner la place de choix dont jouit maintenant la gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) dans les départements de relations industrielles qui existent encore sous cette appellation. Ultimement, l'engouement pour le paradigme VdC en relations industrielles comparées cons-tituerait un déplacement normatif nettement négatif. Varieties of Capitalism: A CritiqueTravis William Fast the routine problems researchers in comparative industrial relations have encountered when operating within the constraints of the Voc paradigm are well known. Methodological nationalism, when coupled with comparative statics, yields both insufficient details of processes operating at the micro level (region, sector, industry) and at the macro level (globalization). the reliance on ideal-typical models operating within an institutional equilibrium renders it difficult to account for nat...

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Gender, Class, and Varieties of Capitalism

Cited by 77 publications

References 17 publications

Abating inequalities? Job quality at the intersection of class and gender in Finland 1977–2013

Abating inequalities? Job quality at the intersection of class and gender in Finland 1977–2013

Winners and Losers: The Consequences of Welfare State Policies for Gender Wage Inequality

Varieties of Capitalism: A Critique

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