Labour and the Political Economy in Israel by Michael Shalev

Labour and the Political Economy in Israel by Michael Shalev

This is the first comprehensive account in any language of Israel's central labour organization (the Histradut) and the Israeli Labour Party.

`Shalev's study is bold, intricate, and profound.. an intelligent treatment of the Israeli case from a theoretically informed, comparative perspective.' Ian S. Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
`surely destined to become the classic study of the evolution of the political economy of the Israeli labour movement ... At the same time, it deserves to become a classic of contemporary sociology ... No one with a serious interest in either the historical development of Israel's labour movement, or theories of social democracy and democratic corporatism, should fail to read this book.' Francis G. Castles, Australian National University
`an important contribution' Deborah Bernstein, University of Haifa
`In addition to being a fine country study full of historical, political, economic and institutional facts, Shalev's book also contributes highly critical insights to theories of corporatism, the state, the labour market, and capital.' Claus Offe, University of Bremen
`a highly specialised work. It is the first comprehensive account in English of the workings of the Israeli Labour Party ... his book is an important work of scholarship, and well worth reading by anyone interested in Israeli politics' Jewish Chronicle
'Israeli professor Shalev has written a fascinating book ... it is simultaneously thoughtful and provocative.' J. Prager, New York University, Choice, Feb '93
`Shalev provides a lively study of labour relations in Israel' Jewish Chronicle
'Shalev provides a lively study of labour relations in Israel' Joseph Mills, Jewish Chronicle, March 1993
'a long-overdue analysis of the role of the Histadrut in the state-building process of Israel ... He has produced a new and critical approach based on social democratic corporatism ... The study is informed and informative, the sources are impressive and the arguments are generally clear.' Judith L. Bara, Thames Valley University, Political Studies 1993
`a profound and stimulating challenge to conventional Israeli interpretations of their own sociology ... a critical and detailed study of how political and economic forces have shaped the real social processes and institutions' International Affairs
'Shalev systematically applies sophisticated theorems to various processes in the development of Israel's labor movement and proposes a new set of explanations of these processes.' Michael Keren, Tel-Aviv University, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 26:1
`the book is extremely thought-provoking ... Dr Shalev's exposure is certainly controversial as promised on the jacket of the book. He provides many challenges and insights to comparative analysis of societies as well as a controversial assessment of the historical world' European Sociological Review
`This is a study which makes an important contribution to the ongoing sociological debates that concern themselves with working-class mobilisation and its links to politics and the economy in capitalist democracies of the West.' Sociology
`Labour and the Political Economy in Israel is a major analytical contribution to the field of political economy and also presents a strong alternative to the conventional views of Israeli history.' American Journal of Sociology

Asa Maron, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Haifa, Michael Shalev, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Asa Maron is a Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the University of Haifa. Previously he held postdoctoral positions at Stanford University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is a political sociologist specializing in the sociology of the welfare
state, with an emphasis on contemporary social policy and governance reforms, their politics, institutional dynamics, and consequences for state-society relations. He has published in Law & Society Review, Administration & Society, Social Policy & Administration, and Mediterranean Politics.

Michael Shalev is a political sociologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting at the University of California at Berkeley. His primary research interests are in the political economy of Israel and rich democracies generally, focusing on the politics of social and economic policy,
social stratification, and the socio-economic underpinnings of political action. He is the author of Labour and the Political Economy in Israel (1992) and editor of The Privatization of Social Policy? (1996). He has published in World Politics, Socio-Economic Review, Social Forces and other
journals. His recent research is on the mass protests of 2011 in Israel and Southern Europe.

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ISBN 13	9780198285137
ISBN 10	0198285132
Title	Labour and the Political Economy in Israel
Author	Michael Shalev
Series	Library Of Political Economy
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1992-03-19
Number of pages	414
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