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History
For Esping Andersen, this idea of Decommodification began in the early years of society with three models that led the way to this overarching idea of decommodifying. Beginning with feudal societies, corporate integration, and complete government control. These three models of government led assisted with the creation of decommodification through proving that markets are not important to the success of the states, proving that members of any given society are not solely commodities, and gave an answer to social questions such as "should the government be in charge of social welfare spending and how much?" The take-here, give there model of clientelism-- a feudal ideal-- challenges commodification through awarding benefits to employees. Corporate integration defined members as what their position was, it was never a sense of defining them by commodities. Complete government control such as statism, will allow for the government to decide who receives benefits giving a sense of universality rather than means-based.

Example
Scandinavian countries are the closest to decommodification according to the scale created by Esping Andersen's research which places Sweden as the most decommodified in the 1980's. Sweden's level of pensions, sickness entitlements and unemployment insurance are the highest among many other leading industrial countries. Their social welfare program is mandated and held under complete control by the Swedish government, in line with this statism approach recommended to ensure decommodification. Sweden also practices a de facto guarantee to the wages of citizens', rather than taking averages and creating regulations through a means-based test on citizens' wages, level of education and their past history with the law.