Fordist ' cycle of rapid productivity increases in the manufacturing of standardized consumer goods , falling relative prices , rising mass incomes , as well as expanding mass consumption . Economic growth , however , was merely one of the conditions facilitating the progress of the welfare state . As is pointed out , it was of equal significance that national economic boundaries were still efficiently controlled under the international economic regime of 'embedded liberalism (Ruggie 1982 . Behind semi-permeable economic boundaries , national governments plus unions could more or less...











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