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IN the advanced capitalist countries, and particularly in the Western European social democracies, politics has largely evolved into an effort to preserve and protect bourgeois ideological hegemony in the face of a more powerful work ing class while, at the same time, promoting the restructuring of capital and improving the conditions for its accumulation. This is one of the typically contradictory processes of late-capitalist development. The attempt to resolve the contradiction has conduced to a characteristic feature of late capitalism: the rise of corporatist forms of interest intermediation. Such forms entail a greater presence of working-class interests inside the state, to which extent they are progressive. But the corporatist approach to class collaboration depends as well on arrangements whereby the labor or ganizations that enjoy this presence are expected to use their authority to discipline the rank and file of the working class-viz., by limiting strikes and restraining "extreme" wage demands. There is thus another dimension to the contradiction, one that cannot be so easily resolved. It is the dimension of class collaboration and self-control versus the fact that class

Author

Becker, David G.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

1983

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400853236