Solidarity without the State? - Business and the Shaping of the Swiss Welfare State, 1890-2000

Informationen zum Autor Matthieu Leimgruber is a postdoctoral advanced researcher! funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (2005-2008) at the International Institute for Social History! Amsterdam. Klappentext The first comprehensive! comparative study of the Swiss welfare system! based on extensive research in business archives. Zusammenfassung Based on extensive research in business archives! this book presents the first comprehensive history of the interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss 'three-pillar' pension system into a model for the World Bank and other pension reformers during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The emergence of a pension funds champion. Switzerland in the worlds of welfare; 1. The dress rehearsal of pension politics (1890-1914); 2. Laying the foundations of a divided pension system (1914-38); 3. No monster like the Beveridge Plan. The wartime breakthrough of social insurance (1938-48); 4. The three-pillar doctrine and the containment of social insurance (1948-72); Epilogue. Aging in the shadow of the three pillars (1972-2006); Conclusion; Appendix. A statistical overview of the second pillar; Sources and references; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Matthieu Leimgruber, Leimgruber Matthieu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.03.2008
• EAN: 9780521875400
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87540-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Schweiz; Geschichte, Sozialversicherung, Sozialpolitik, Swissness, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems, Finance and the finance industry