Across five seminars, this workshop explores how institutions shape the distribution of income and security in advanced economies. You will begin with the debate over wage bargaining and corporatism, asking how the organization of unions and employers affects economic performance, alongside Michal Kalecki's classic account of the politics of full employment. You will then work through Gøsta Esping-Andersen's Politics against Markets, following how Scandinavian social democracy built alliances across classes, created the social citizenship state, and later struggled with party decline. The final seminar connects these debates to the welfare state literature that followed. Throughout, you will learn to trace how political power and institutional design shape who gets what.