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Political Science - Aangegeven wordt hoe verschillende aspecten van sociale ongelijkheid en de onderlinge afhankelijkheid van verdelingsmechanismen samenhangen. Met name wordt een visie ontwikkeld op de verbanden die bestaan tussen opleiding, positie in het arbeidsbestel en inkomens- en vermogensniveau. Een beleid gericht op een herverdeling van arbeidskenmerken wordt noodzakelijk geacht. Voorts moet een stelsel van wederkerend onderwijs worden ingevoerd.

Confronted with acute SE problems, the Socialist & the Christian Democratic trade unions in 1976 strengthened their "Common Trade Unions" Front' (with about 2 million members out of a total of 2,300,000 wage- & salary-earners in Belgium) in view of negotiating with employers & with the government, for which the trade unions have submitted a common platform. This common front has antecedents on the local, regional, & professional levels, but has never been & never will be of a permanent nature. This is due as much to historical, as to ideological causes. The principle of class struggle is basic to the socialist union, & christian doctrine is basic to the Christian Democrat concept. The two unions are imbalanced in their linguistic division. Socialists dominate the French-speaking South, while the Christians dominate the Flemish-speaking North. Each confederation wants to maintain its identity. From the employer's view (& to some extent completely independent from the trade union's common front) representatives of employer's organizations have launched the idea that a new & comprehensive "social contract" should be negotiated. The Christian Democratic Union favors such a pact, but since the socialist trade union rejects this idea--which would lead to a further integration in the capitalist system--the probability for such a pact to be realized at present is rather low. Modified HA.