Constructing the post‐fordist state? The politics of labour market flexibility in Spain

Bibliographic Data

ID6405919
AuthorsMiguel Martinez Lucio (0000-0001-7090-9007, University of Wales), Paul Blyton (University of Wales)
Year1995
Volume18
Issue2
Pages340-360
Publication date1995-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWest European Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402389508425075
OpenAlexW2155949710
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited9

This article addresses several issues surrounding the politics of flexibility in Spain. First, it argues that the strategic role of trade unions develop and condition public policies on labour market reform by couching their strategies in terms of the post‐war labour market strategies and structures of the state, especially as governments attempt to move away from established forms of fordist regulation. Hence, second, a broader political and historical perspective is required that understands the complex political dynamics of state‐labour relationships and their structuring over time. The state's role and its labour market presence becomes itself the object of distinct political interventions and calculations by unions, governments and employers. Any discussion of a 'post‐fordist' state, determined to increase the flexibility of the labour market, must look at the complex and difficult 'transitional' process

Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Flexibility (engineering · Fordism · Labour economics · Labour market flexibility · Management · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Structuring · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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