Diseguaglianza, conflitto sociale e sindacati in America

Inequality, social conflict and unions in America

Antonio Lettieri

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Abstract: A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is proof of the failure of Keynesian policies. Yet, there is something structurally distorted in the institutions and policies of American industrial relations. The fall of the ‘social contract’ is the basic element of the crisis of the American social and economic model. In comparison with the crisis of the Thirties and its aftermath, what initially was supposed to possibly evolve toward a new New Deal of the Twenty-first century has evolved just in its opposite.

Keywords: Inequality; Globalisation; Labour; Welfare; Trade Unions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A20 A32 B00 B19 B29 B49 B59 C00 C19 D31 D63 D74 E24 F01 F16 H53 I0 I30 J08 J3 J5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-06-30
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Published in Moneta e Credito N° 258.Vol 65(2012): pp. 115-144

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