This article compares how the United States and Germany deregulated labor markets between the 1980s and 2010s in response to the rise of neoliberalism. Building on literature with a focus on ideas and national knowledge regimes, the authors argue that the trajectories of labor market deregulation across the two countries are explained by the distinct social organization of ideas. The latter refers to the actors and institutions involved in the production and dissemination of ideas (including think tanks and public research institutes), their access and ways of communicating to political elites and electorates, levels of shared academic standards across the political divide, and related degrees of competition or cooperation in the production of new knowledge and policy ideas. Moving beyond previous employment relations literature with a focus on institutions and power, the article breaks new theoretical ground by demonstrating how the social organization of ideas is a key intermediary in explaining employment relations change and continuity.

本文比较了1980年代至2010年代美国和德国如何对新自由主义的兴起进行放松管制。作者基于对思想和国家知识体系的关注，认为在两国之间劳动力市场放松管制的轨迹是由思想的独特社会组织来解释的。后者是指参与思想的产生和传播的参与者和机构（包括智囊团和公共研究机构），与政治精英和选民沟通的途径和方式，跨越政治鸿沟的共同学术水平以及相关生产新知识和政策思想时的竞争或合作程度。