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With demands for more flexible working hours, regulations have become, together with unemployment, the key labour market issue in Europe over the last few decades. In this book, Roger Bobacka provides a detailed case study of the Finnish experience, showing how corporatist arrangements work in practice and the effect they have on outcomes.Critically evaluating the concept of corporatism and the assumption that it represents a form of consensus building, Bobacka also discusses how to normatively define good and bad corporatism and provides a comparison between Finland and the UK on the implementation of flexible working hours. He argues that corporatist arrangements have resulted in an intolerance of dissent and opposition and that it is debatable whether the concept is suitable for characterizing systems with close relationships between governments and the main economic interest groups.

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• List of Tables(p. vi)
• Preface(p. vii)
• Acknowledgements(p. ix)
• List of Abbreviations(p. x)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 Corporatism and Consensus Building(p. 18)
• 3 Working Hours and Interest Intermediation in Finland--a Politics of Accommodation?(p. 42)
• 4 Working Hours and Organised Interests--the Current Dilemma(p. 69)
• 5 The Formulation of Working Hours Legislation--Corporate Pluralist Deliberation as Consensus Building?(p. 81)
• 6 Parliamentary Deliberation--Formal Rules and Informal Practices(p. 109)
• 7 Implementation and Public Perceptions--Do Corporate Pluralist Arrangements Matter on the Shop Floor?(p. 136)
• 8 Conclusions--Consensus and its Side Effects(p. 164)
• Appendix(p. 179)
• Bibliography(p. 180)
• Index(p. 191)