[eBook Code] The End of Organized Capitalism (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgements vi

Preface vii

1 Introduction 1

2 The development of organized capitalism (1) 17

Germany: the 'ideal type'? 17

Sweden: from finance capital to social democracy 29

Britain: the Makler economy 42

3 The development of organized capitalism (2) 56

France: dislocation through 'economic forwardness' 56

United States: instrumentalism and progressivism 67

4 Economic change and spatial restructuring (1) 84

Britain 93

The United States 109

5 Economic change and spatial restructuring (2) 124

France 124

Germany 136

Sweden 152

6 The service class: its emergence and some consequences 161

The American service class 163

The service class in Europe 178

7 Industry, finance, politics: modes of disorganization 196

Industrial changes 196

Banks and finance 201

Political changes 209

8 The changing structure of trade-unionism: the end of neo-corporatism? 232

Sweden: the crisis of central bargaining 236

West Germany: co-determination and disorganization 253

France: labour excluded 262

Britain: capitalism's weakest link 269

9 Postmodern culture and disorganized capitalism: some conclusions 285

The social basis of the postmodernist sensibility 285

Capitalist disorganization and politics 300

Notes 314

Index 378