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| Titre : | Working-class power, capitalist-class interests, and class compromise (2000) |
| Auteurs : | Erik Olin Wright |
| Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
| Dans : | American Journal of Sociology (vol. 105 - n° 4, January 2000) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 957-1002 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ CLASSE POPULAIRE ; ECONOMIE DE MARCHE ; SOCIOLOGIE ; NEGOCIATION COLLECTIVE ; DEFINITION ; ETATS UNIS ; SUEDE |
| Résumé : | This article proposes a general theoretical framework for understanding the concept of "class compromise" in terms of a "reverse-J" model of the relationship between the associational power of workers and the interests of capitalists: increases in working-class power adversely affect capitalist-class interests until such power crosses some intermediate threshold beyond which further increases in working-class power are potentially beneficial to capitalists' interests. This article argues that the reverse-J curve is itself the result of two distinct kinds of effects of workers' power on capitalists' interests: one, a negative effect, in which workers' power undermines the capacity of capitalists to unilaterally make various kinds of decisions, and the second, a positive effect, in which workers' power helps capitalists solve the various kinds of collective action problems they face. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.1086/210397 |
