Politics of Social Risk - Business and Welfare State Development

Klappentext When and why have employers supported the development of institutions of social insurance that provide benefits to workers for various employment-related risks? What factors explain the variation in the social policy preferences of employers? This book provides a systematic evaluation of the role played by business in the development of the modern welfare state. Isabela Mares studies these critical questions and demonstrates that major social policies were adopted by cross-class alliances comprising labor-based organizations and key sectors of the business community. Zusammenfassung The book provides a systematic evaluation of the role played by business in the development of the modern welfare state. This book studies the critical questions and its analysis demonstrates that major social policies were adopted by cross-class alliances comprising labor-based organizations and key sectors of the business community. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Welfare State: a world against employers?; 2. Interests and coalitions in the formation of the modern welfare state; 3. Workplace accidents as 'social risk': employers and the development of accident insurance; 4. Is unemployment insurable? Employers and the development of unemployment insurance; 5. Unified or occupationally-fragmented insurance? Political reforms during the Postwar Years; 6. Risk redistribution in mature welfare states: the politics of early retirement; 7. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Isabela Mares, Isabela (Stanford University Mares, Mares Isabela
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2003
• EAN: 9780521827416
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82741-6
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Labour / income economics, Political science & theory, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Political science and theory, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems