Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State
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.
Dennie Oude Nijhuis is senior researcher at the Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and lecturer at the Institute for History, Leiden University, Netherlands.
Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
This series presents leading edge research on the recasting of European welfare states. The series is interdisciplinary, featuring contributions from experts in economics, political science, and social policy. The books provide a comparative analysis of topical issues, including
- reforms of the major social programmes pensions, health, social security;
- the changing political cleavages in welfare politics;
- policy convergence and social policy innovation; and
- the impact of globalisation.
Series editors: Martin Rhodes, University of Denver, USA, and Maurizio Ferrera, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Politics of Segmentation
Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe
Georg Picot
Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis
Igor Guardiancich
The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany
Still a Semi-Sovereign State?
Christof Schiller
The Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms in Germany and Italy
Agnes Blome
Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU
A Chance in Europe 2020
Edited by Matteo Jessoula and Ilaria Madama
Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State
Edited by Dennie Oude Nijhuis
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Names: Nijhuis, Dennie Oude, 1979- editor.
Title: Business interests and the development of the modern welfare state / edited by Dennie Oude Nijhuis.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in the political economy of welfare | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019011050| ISBN 9780815377917 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351002394 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Social responsibility of business--Political aspects. | Business and politics. | Social policy--Economic aspects. | Welfare state.Classification: LCC HD60 .B8843 2019 | DDC 330.12/6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019011050
ISBN: 978-0-8153-7791-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-00239-4 (ebk)
Paul Bridgen is Associate Professor of Social Policy in the School of Economic, Political and Social Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. His main research interests are in the politics of social policy making, particularly with regard to pensions policy. His most recent work in this area has been published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations (with Marek Naczyk) and Social Policy and Administration. He has also published widely on UK political history, including books on the early twentieth century Labour Party and welfare policy under the Conservative governments between 1951 and 1964 (with Rodney Lowe).
Pierre Eichenberger is junior lecturer in modern history at the University of Zurich. His first book, titled Mainmise sur l'tat social: Mobilisation patronale et caisses de compensation en Suisse, 19081960 (Alphil Presses, 2016), deals with the history of Swiss employers' associations and their influence over social policy development.
Patrick Emmenegger is Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. His research focuses on the reform of coordinated capitalism, business-government relations, democratization and theories of institutional change. Recent publications include The Age of Dualization: The Changing Face of Inequality in Deindustrializing Societies (with Silja Husermann, Bruno Palier and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser) and The Power to Dismiss: Trade Unions and the Regulation of Job Security in Europe.
Susanna Fellman is Professor of Business History at the School of Business Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She is currently also visiting professor within the Helsinki University Humanities (HUH) program. Fellman received her PhD at the University of Helsinki, Finland, where she worked until 2011, when she moved to Gothenburg. Her research interests are the professionalization and modernization of management, the development of competition policy in a historical perspective, and the role of private corporate welfare programs and employers in welfare state development.
