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In this timely political analysis of the Israeli economy, Shalev focuses on the Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center, to unravel the relationship between organized labor and the state and to illustrate its impact on the management of economic performance. Throughout, Shalev relates the implications of Israel's specific case to larger issues in political economy.

Occupational welfare is a distinctive solution to contemporary social policy dilemmas. Though it plays a substantial role in many countries, especially in pension provision, occupational welfare and its subtle links to the welfare state have been largely neglected by social scientists. This book, a collaborative effort by a distinguished group of experts, offers in-depth studies of occupational welfare in the US and Scandinavia. These chapters are complemented by discussions of two partially contrasting cases (Canada and Japan), an introductory overview, and a concluding comparative...