Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Oude Nijhuis, Dennie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume provides a synthesis on the question of business attitudes towards and its influence over the development of the modern welfare state. It gathers leading scholars in the field to offer both in-depth historical country case studies and comparative chapters that discuss contemporary developments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351213462
• Artikelnr.: 57104860

Autorenporträt

Dennie Oude Nijhuis is senior researcher at the Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and lecturer at the Institute for History, Leiden University, Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Analyzing the role of business in welfare state development Part I:
Country Studies 2. Business interests and the development of the
Bismarckian welfare state 3. Explaining employer support for welfare state
development in the Netherlands 4. Business interests and the development of
the public-private welfare mix in Switzerland, 1880-1990 5. British
employers and the development of state protection for unemployment,
sickness and old age, 1900-1990 6. Private or public? Employer attitudes
and strategies towards welfare reform in Finland 7. Misrepresented
interests: Business, Medicare, and the making of the American health care
state Part II: Cross-country comparisons and recent challenges 8. Who
controls the workplace? Business and the regulation of job security in
Western Europe 9. Employer organizations and the evolution of active labor
market policy in Sweden and the United States 10. The business of change:
Employers and work-family policy reforms 11. The financial politics of
occupational pensions: A business interest's perspective 12. Industrial
coordination and vocational training in the postindustrial age 13. Pension
privatization as a boon to stock market development? Financial ideas,
reform complementarities and the divergent fates of Hungary's and Poland's
pension fund industries 14. Conclusion: The business of studying business