A landmark publication, this volume is geared for faculty and graduate students of economics, political science, social policy, and sociology, as well as policymakers concerned with increasing inequality in a period of deep economic and social crisis.

Part I: Concept and Measurement ; 1. How We Grow Unequal ; Patrick Emmenegger, Silja Hausermann, Bruno Palier, and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser ; 2. Varieties of Dualization? Labor Market Segmentation and Insider-Outsider Divides Across Regimes ; Silja Hausermann and Hanna Schwander ; 3. Labor Market Disadvantage and the Experience of Recurrent Poverty ; Mark Tomlinson and Robert Walker ; Part II: Decomposing Dualization ; 4. Whatever Works: Dualization and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States ; Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx ; 5. Dualization and Gender in Social Services: The Role of the State in Germany and France ; Daniela Kroos and Karin Gottschall ; 6. From Dilemma to Dualization: Social and Migration Policies in the 'Reluctant Countries of Immigration ; Patrick Emmenegger and Romana Careja ; Part III: Varieties of Dualization ; 7. Shifting the Public-Private Mix: A New Dualization of Welfare ; Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, Adam Saunders, and Marek Naczyk ; 8. Responses to Labor Market Divides in Small States Since the 1990s ; Herbert Obinger, Peter Starke, and Alexandra Kaasch ; 9. Dualization and Institutional Complementarities: Industrial Relations, Labor Market and Welfare State Changes in France and Germany ; Bruno Palier and Kathleen Thelen ; 10. Economic Dualization in Japan and South Korea ; Ito Peng ; Part IV: The Politics of Dualization ; 11. Solidarity or Dualization? Social Governance, Union Preferences and Unemployment Benefit Adjustment in Belgium and France ; Daniel Clegg ; 12. Insider-Outsider Politics: Party Strategies and Political Behavior in Sweden ; Johannes Lindvall and David Rueda ; 13. How Rich Countries Cope With Deindustrialization ; Patrick Emmenegger, Silja Hausermann, Bruno Palier, and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser ; Index

"This is a timely and significant contribution to current debates on the widening gap between insiders and outsiders in rich societies. Going beyond a structuralist view, this comparative study reveals the contentious politics as well as the dividing policies of employment deregulation and welfare retrenchment. Eminent experts map a variety of dualization patterns across continental European, Scandinavian, Anglophone, and Asian-Pacific welfare states. The book's essential message is that dualization is no necessity, but rather the result of divisive politics and dualist policies." -- Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Professor of Sociology, University of Mannheim "The broad, comfortable middle class that western democracies built up in the wake of WWII has contracted and William Beveridge's five giants of want, disease, ignorance, squalor, and idleness are again looming large. Most observers point helplessly at economic and social globalization, but this comprehensive international comparison of social and labor market policies reveals how the growth of inequalities is exacerbated, deterred, or contained by national politics. Here, for the first time, we can learn systematically which policies to avoid, and which may, in fact, keep the giants at bay." -- Stephan Leibfried, Professor of Public Policy, University of Bremen "This terrific volume brings together cutting-edge scholarship on a very important topic. Taken as a whole, the volume makes a compelling case that growing differentiation of insiders and outsiders represents a common trend in the advanced capitalist countries, with long-term consequences for politics and social cohesion. The authors emphasize social policy changes as a source of dualization and demonstrate that patterns of dualization vary across countries for fundamentally political reasons." -- Jonas Pontusson, Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Geneva

Selling point: Introduces the concept of dualization, the process by which society's insiders and outsiders are treated differentially Selling point: Conceptualizes inequality as a multidimensional phenomenon, stemming from inequalities in labor markets, welfare, and political representation Selling point: Stresses the role of political choice in increasing inequality Selling point: Presents findings based on rigorous methodological approaches, including panel data analysis and policy process tracing

Patrick Emmenegger, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and its Centre for Welfare State Research. Silja Häusermann, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the University of Konstanz. Bruno Palier, PhD, is CNRS Research Professor at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes, Paris. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser, PhD, is Professor of Comparative Social Policy and Politics at the Oxford Institute of Social Policy and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Selling point: Introduces the concept of dualization, the process by which society's insiders and outsiders are treated differentially Selling point: Conceptualizes inequality as a multidimensional phenomenon, stemming from inequalities in labor markets, welfare, and political representation Selling point: Stresses the role of political choice in increasing inequality Selling point: Presents findings based on rigorous methodological approaches, including panel data analysis and policy process tracing