Etherington’s Austerity, Welfare and Work provides a significant contribution to critical understandings of contemporary economic restructuring and the changing role of the state in Britain. This is achieved in a number of steps. First, Etherington designs a unique conceptual framework to demonstrate how Britain’s respective industrial relations and welfare systems are inter-related and have been re-designed together as part of a wider ‘class strategy’ aimed at restoring/preserving capitalist profitability and ‘redistributing income and power away from the working class’ (p. xi). Second, and this is the book’s primary appeal, Etherington shows how the damaging effects of industrial relations/welfare reforms have not just been passively accepted but are routinely resisted and managed by networks of local-level actors. Finally, Etherington draws international comparisons with Danish political economy to identify ways of reducing inequalities and building more inclusive industrial relations/welfare systems.

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书评：大卫·埃瑟林顿，紧缩、福利和工作：探索政治、地理和不平等

埃瑟灵顿的紧缩、福利和工作对当代经济结构调整和英国国家角色变化的批判性理解做出了重大贡献。这是通过多个步骤实现的。首先，埃瑟林顿设计了一个独特的概念框架来展示英国各自的劳资关系和福利体系如何相互关联，并作为更广泛的“阶级战略”的一部分被重新设计，旨在恢复/保持资本主义的盈利能力和“重新分配收入和福利”。远离工人阶级的权力”（第 11 页）。其次，这也是本书的主要吸引力，埃瑟林顿展示了劳资关系/福利改革的破坏性影响如何不仅被被动接受，而且经常被地方层面的参与者网络抵制和管理。最后，