ABSTRACT
Esping-Andersen’s seminal work Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990) clearly demonstrated how welfare-state regimes across Europe were linked to national histories of class politics. Different constellations of welfare policies and institutions were explained by the efforts of social classes to protect themselves from “commodification” in the labour market. Ironically, however, Esping-Andersen and others in this approach had little to say about production and workplace politics itself.
