Poldermodel
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The poldermodel is the term used for the Dutch model of consensus in which employers, syndicates and the government meet with each other to make agreements about labour.
The Akkoord van Wassenaar (1982) is often considered the start of the use of the term in which the forementioned parties agreed on loonmatiging.
The model of consensus goes back to the Middle Ages, when farmers, noblemen, cities and others needed to collaborate in order to build dykes in order to keep out the water.