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Solidarity against All Odds

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  • Marek Naczyk

    (Centre d’études européennes / LIEPP, Sciences Po Paris
    Oxford Institute of Social Policy, University of Oxford, UK)

  • Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

    (Oxford Institute of Social Policy, University of Oxford, UK)

Abstract

In an era of fiscal austerity and dualization of social protection, has organized labor become increasingly split along skill and industry lines? Against recent political science accounts of trade union involvement in social policymaking, this paper argues that, in the specific area of pensions, unions representing high-skilled workers and the core industrial sectors of the economy have paradoxically been led to increase their cooperation with unions representing the less privileged segments of labor, in order to improve coverage of private pensions across the board. These unions’ motivations for doing so and the strategies they have employed have nonetheless differed according to the preexisting institutional design of domestic pension systems. The argument is supported with case studies of British, French, German, and Belgian unions’ involvement in contemporary pension reform.

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  • Marek Naczyk & Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, 2015. "Solidarity against All Odds," Politics & Society, , vol. 43(3), pages 361-384, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:43:y:2015:i:3:p:361-384
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329215584789
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