Markets and Welfare in Contemporary Society: Local and Global Perspectives

Esping-Andersen, Gøsta (ed.), Why We Need a New Welfare State (Oxford, 2002; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Nov. 2003), https://doi.org/10.1093/0199256438.001.0001 (selected chapters ca 100 pages)

Mader, Philip, Daniel Mertens, and Natascha Van der Zwan (Eds.). (2020). The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doiorg.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/10.4324/9781315142876 (selected chapters, ca 106 pages)

Additional text as specified by the course coordinator in the course guide or equivalent: approximately 300 pages.

Amount: approx. 500 pages.

Compendium:

Bogdanova, Elena and Linda Soneryd (2025) Time, care, and sustainability: Temporal conflicts and housing renovation. Housing, Theory and Society, 42(2), 171–186. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2024.2371316

Byrt, Adrienne, Cook, Kay (2025) Mapping Gendered Economic Abuse Across the Relationship Lifecourse: A Qualitative Meta-Ethnography. Journal of Family Violence https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-025-00872-7

Dukelow, Fiona (2021) Recommodification and the Welfare State in Re/Financialised Austerity Capitalism: Further Eroding Social Citizenship? Social Policy and Society, 20(1), 125–141. doi:10.1017/S1474746420000494

Baccaro, Lucio, and Chris Howell (2017) The Conversion of Corporatism: Reengineering Swedish Industrial Relations for a Neoliberal Era. In Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s (pp. 143-171). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139088381.008

Çalışkan, Koray, and Michel Callon (2009) Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization, Economy and Society, 38:3, 369-398, DOI: 10.1080/03085140903020580

Fourcade, Marion and Kieran Healy (2007) Moral Views of Market Society. Annual Review of Sociology 33:285-311. https://doi.org/10.1146/ annurev.soc.33.040406.131642

Hochschild, Arlie Russell (2005) "Rent a mom" and other services: markets, meanings and emotions. International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion 1(1): 74-86.

Longo, Stefano B., and Rebecca Clausen (2011) The Tragedy of the Commodity: The Overexploitation of the Mediterranean Bluefin Tuna Fishery. Organization & Environment, 24(3), 312-328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026611419860

Pettersson, Jane (2022) The problematization of consumers in Swedish financial literacy education, Cultural Studies, 36:6, 929-952, DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2021.1936586

Rod Hick & Mark Stephens (2023) Housing, the welfare state and poverty: On the financialization of housing and the dependent variable problem, Housing, Theory and Society, 40:1, 78-95, DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2022.2095438

Schedelik, Michael, Nölke, Andreas, Mertens, Daniel and Christian May (2021) Comparative Capitalism, Growth Models and Emerging Markets: The Development of the Field. New Political Economy, 26(4), 514–526. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1807487

Thelen, Kathleen (2018) Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States. Perspectives on Politics 16(4): 938–953.

Wallinder, Y. (2026). Commodification of urban sustainability projects: urban gardening in Gothenburg as a collaborative practice or a risky and individualised career opportunity. Local Environment, 31(9), 1559–1575. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2025.2570870

Wiksell, Kristin (2020) Worker cooperatives for social change: knowledge-making through constructive resistance within the capitalist market economy. Journal of Political Power, 13(2), 201–216. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2020.1764803