商品簡介
Observing that social structure has played only a minor role in the development of the regulation theory of capitalist development and the debate on the transition from Fordist to post-Fordist growth strategies and that, conversely, regulation theoretical concepts are rarely considered in the debate on social inequality and stratification, Koch (U. of Ulster, Northern Ireland) has here sought to link the two by developing a theoretical model of the restructuring of labor markets and social structures of advanced capitalist countries on the basis of the regulation approach. After developing the model he tests it on empirical national case studies of the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Spain, and Sweden from the end of World War II to 2003. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Max Koch is a lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies at the University of Ulster, where he is also a member of the European Studies Unit within the Research Institute of the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages. He received both his PhD in Sociology and his Habilitation (second 'doctoral degree', prerequisite for German professorship) from the Freie UniversitA?t Berlin. As a postdoctoral researcher he worked, among other places, in Santiago de Chile, Lund, Madrid, and Rotterdam. He is involved in several research networks both at European and international level. He has published widely (including three single-authored books in German and numerous articles) in the areas of social theory, the sociology of development, labor market regulation, stratification and social exclusion.
