Labour and the Political Economy in Israel [Hardcover]

In this timely political analysis of the Israeli economy, Shalev focuses on the Histadrut, Israel's national trade union center, to unravel the relationship between organized labor and the state and to illustrate its impact on the management of economic performance. Throughout, Shalev relates the implications of Israel's specific case to larger issues in political economy.

Shalev systematically applies sophisticated theorems to various processes in the development of Israel's labor movement and proposes a new set of explanations of these processes. --International Journal of Middle East Studies

I predict that this book will become essential reading....Shalev's book is the most comprehensive description to date of the Histadrut and the Labor Party and of their interrelationships. It is a penetrating and thought-provoking analysis....Shalev is to be congratulated for offering readers a penetrating and incisive analysis of key Israeli institutions, based on extensive scholarship. --Industrial and Labor Relations Review

This book is essential reading. --American Political Science Review

A fascinating book within the broad contours of thenewpolitical economy....Simultaneously thoughtful and provocative. --Choice

The study is informed and informative, the sources are impressive and the arguments are generally clear --Political Studies