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The End of Solidarity? The Decline of Egalitarian Wage Policies in Italy and Sweden

Lucio Baccaro

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, baccarol{at}mit.edu

Richard M. Locke

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, rlocke{at}mit.edu

Through an analysis of industrial relations developments in Italy and Sweden - two countries especially committed to egalitarian wage policies - this article argues that wage egalitarianism as it was conceived in the 1960s and 1970s (compression of inter-occupational wage differentials) proved to be a strategic mistake for unions. It brought about fragmentation - involving multiple cleavages between blue- and white-collar workers, skilled and unskilled, male and female, and even private and public sector employees - as opposed to unity and thus produced the opposite results from its stated goals. The article also argues that if words like `equality' and `solidarity' continue to have meaning for labour organizations, they will need to be associated in the future with completely new supply-side strategies aimed at bringing about equality of jobs as opposed merely to wages.

European Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 4, No. 3, 283-308 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/095968019843002
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