Labor parties in postindustrial societies
By: edited by Frances Fox Piven.
Contributors: Piven, Frances Fox.
Series: Europe and the international order
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Political parties -- Congresses; Working class -- Political activity -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revision of papers originally presented at a conference at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, Feb. 1988.
"Published as part of the Wagner Institute series on the city in the twenty-first century"--P. [vii].
Table of contents: title: The decline of labor parties / Frances Fox Piven; title: Labor force changes, working class decline, and the labour vote / Ivor Crewe; title: Class, consumption, and collectivism / Joel Krieger; title: The changing face of popular power in France / George Ross; title: Swedish social democracy and the transition from industrial to postindustrial politics / Göran Therborn; title: Smooth consolidation in the West German welfare state / Claus Offe; title: Postindustrial cleavage structures / Gøsta Esping-Andersen; title: Electoral politics and economic control in Israel / Asher Arian and Ilan Talmud; title: Facing economic restructuring and constitutional renewal / Neil Bradford and Jane Jenson; title: The Democratic Party and city politics in the postindustrial era / Alan DiGaetano; title: Structural constraints and political development / Frances Fox Piven.