Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State

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

Product details

• Authors: Dennie (Leiden University Oude Nijhuis
• Assisted by: Dennie Oude Nijhuis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780815377917
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-7791-7
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State; Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Social issues & processes, Political Economy, Welfare economics, Educational strategies & policy, Social and ethical issues, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, Educational strategies and policy