UID:
almafu_9959145503102883
Format:
1 online resource (342 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-351-00239-2
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1-351-21345-8
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the political economy of welfare
Content:
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. Composed of six archive-based historical narratives of business' role in the development of social insurance programs in Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, and six comparative case studies, this volume also extends the study of business to policy fields that have hitherto received little attention in the literature, such as active labor market policies, educational policies, employment protection legislation, healthcare, private pension programs and workfamily policies. It illuminates why business groups have responded so very differently to demands for increased social protection against different labor market risks in different countries and over time. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of comparative welfare, political science, sociology, social policy studies, comparative political economy and welfare history.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Analyzing the role of business in welfare state development -- 1.1. Business interests and the development of the modern welfare state -- 1.2. Analyzing business welfare preferences -- 1.3. Disentangling business welfare preferences from business power -- 1.4. Looking ahead -- References -- PART I: Country Studies -- 2. Business interests and the development of the Bismarckian welfare state -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The social policy situation in Germany -- 2.3. The organization of business interests in Germany -- 2.4. Welfare state development in Germany since the 1880s -- 2.5. Employers and social policy during the post-war period -- 2.6. Employers and welfare retrenchment -- 2.7. Findings and discussion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Explaining employer support for welfare state development in the Netherlands -- 3.1. The social policy situation in the Netherlands -- 3.2. Business and the pre-war origins of the Dutch welfare state -- 3.3. Business and the expansion of the Dutch welfare state during the Golden Age -- 3.4. Business and the politics of welfare retrenchment -- 3.5. Findings and discussion -- Primary sources -- References -- 4. Business interests and the development of the public-private welfare mix in Switzerland, 1880-1990 -- 4.1. Business interest associations (BIAs) and their involvement in social provision -- 4.2. Uncertain beginnings? Business faces the "social question," 1890-1914 -- 4.3. The roots of the public-private welfare mix, 1914-1948 -- 4.4. Business and social security from growth to consolidation, 1948-1994 -- 4.5. Findings and discussion -- Primary sources -- Notes -- References -- Appendix: Figures and Tables.
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5. British employers and the development of state protection for unemployment, sickness and old age, 1900-1990 -- 5.1. The British welfare state -- 5.2. Employers and the foundations of the British welfare state, 1880-1939 -- 5.3. Employers, unions and the First World War -- 5.4. Employers and the coming of Beveridge -- 5.5. The social democratic challenge: 1957-1975 -- 5.6. The neo-liberal challenge: The 1980s -- 5.7. Findings and discussion -- Primary sources -- Notes -- References -- 6. Private or public? Employer attitudes and strategies towards welfare reform in Finland -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. A first step towards a modern welfare state: The old-age pension -- 6.3. Employer reorientation in a changing political environment: The postwar period -- 6.4. Findings and discussion -- References -- 7. Misrepresented interests: Business, Medicare, and the making of the American health care state -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The consensus on consensus -- 7.3. Big business, organized business, and Medicare -- 7.4. Organizational misrepresentation -- 7.5. Congressional testimony -- 7.6. How politicians regarded organized business -- 7.7. After Medicare -- 7.8. Conclusion: Continued misrepresentation -- References -- PART II: Cross-country comparisons and recent challenges -- 8. Who controls the workplace? Business and the regulation of job security in Western Europe -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Setting up the regime: Business and job security regulations until the late 1970s -- 8.3. Reforming the regime: Business and job security regulations after the late 1970s -- 8.4. Findings and discussion -- Notes -- References -- 9. Employer organizations and the evolution of active labor market policy in Sweden and the United States -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Existing theory and research design -- 9.3. Employers and ALMP in the U.S.
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9.4. Employers and ALMP in Sweden -- 9.5. Findings and discussion -- Notes -- References -- 10. The business of change: Employers and work-family policy reforms -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Employers, the education gender gap, and work-family policies -- 10.3. Testing the mechanisms through case studies -- 10.4. Conclusions: The business of change -- Notes -- References -- 11. The financial politics of occupational pensions: A business interest's perspective -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. The financial politics of occupational pensions -- 11.3. Risk and control in two pension systems -- 11.4. Keeping pension funds solvent -- 11.5. Occupational pensions and the financialized corporation -- 11.6. Pension funds as financial intermediaries -- 11.7. Findings and discussion -- References -- 12. Industrial coordination and vocational training in the postindustrial age -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Industrial relations and vocational training under siege -- 12.3. Employers, VET and rules of collective political engagement -- 12.4. Vocational training in Denmark, Switzerland and Britain -- 12.5. Findings and discussion -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Pension privatization and the politics of property rights -- 13.3. Pension privatization in Poland and Hungary -- 13.4. Linking pension privatization with the privatization of state-owned enterprises -- 13.5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 14. Conclusion: The business of studying business -- 14.1. Benefits, costs, and the importance of political constraints -- 14.2. Wage bargaining institutions and the public-private welfare mix -- 14.3. Recent challenges -- References -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8153-7791-6
Language:
English
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