Jobs with Equality by Lane Kenworthy
Economic and social shifts have led to rising income inequality in the world's affluent countries. Lane Kenworthy offers a major new comprehensive and systematic assessment of the experiences of rich nations over the last 30 years.
This new book is a worthy successor to Lane Kenworthys much acclaimed Egalitarian CapitalismCombining academic rigor with a reader-friendly style, he explores how we might reconcile what many consider incompatible goals: more employment and greater equality. Drawing on systematic and empirically rich analyses, Kenworthy argues against any simplistic policy formula. The book makes especially lucrative reading when, in the latter half, it identifies the key ingredients of a win-win strategy. Jobs with Equality is destined to generate debate all-the-while that it affirms Lane Kenworthys status as a leading scholar of social inequality. Gosta Esping-Andersen, Professor of Sociology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. On the premise that high employment is essential to the realization of egalitarian goals in the contemporary era, this important book explores how social policies and institutional arrangements in advanced capitalist societies have affected employment growth over the last three decades. Kenworthy synthesizes existing literature and presents new empirical findings based on original cross-nationaldata and measurements. His most important contribution is to explore multiple determinants of employment performance and interactions among these determinants in a systematic fashion. Very sensibly, the analysis yields policy recommendations that are specific to particular institutional contexts. For students of comparative political economy, the particular questions that Kenworthy addresses are now settled for some time to come.' Jonas Pontusson, Professor of Politics, Princeton University.
LANE KENWORTHY is assistant professor of sociology at Emory University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199550593 |
| ISBN 10 | 019955059X |
| Title | Jobs with Equality |
| Author | Lane Kenworthy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2008-07-10 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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