Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State)

Dennie Oude Nijhuis

ISBN 10: 0815377916 / ISBN 13: 9780815377917

Published by Routledge 2019-07-23, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State)
• Publisher: Routledge 2019-07-23
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815377916
• ISBN 13: 9780815377917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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 work‐family 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.

Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

About the Author

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