Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination
Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3204085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cathie Jo Martins, Cathie Martins (0000-0002-4329-3945, Boston University), Cathie Jo Martin, Dennie Oude Nijhuis (0000-0003-2595-5199, Leiden University), Erik Olsson (0000-0001-7674-8582, Boston University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-419 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975621000187 |
| OpenAlex | W4205233907 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 60 |
Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have different historical patterns of industrialization, but developed similar patterns of industrial coordination and cooperation. Theories accounting for industrial relations systems (economic structure, power resources, and party/electoral systems) have difficulty accounting for the similarities among these cases. Therefore, we explore the historical depictions of labor appearing in literature to evaluate whether cross-national distinctions in cultural conceptions of labor have some correspondence to distinctions between coordinated and liberal industrial relations systems. We hypothesize that historical literary depictions of labor are associated with the evolution of industrial systems, and apply computational text analyses to large corpora of literary texts. We find that countries (Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands) with coordinated, corporatist industrial relations in the 20th century share similar cultural constructions about labor relations dating back to at least 1770. Literary depictions found in modern coordinated/corporatist countries are significantly different from those found in Britain, a country with liberal/pluralist industrial relations systems. The research has significance for our understanding of the role of culture in the evolution of modern political economies
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