What has brought about the widespread public provision of welfare
and income security within free-market liberalism? Some social
scientists have regarded welfare as a preindustrial atavism;
others, as a functional requirement of industrial society. Most
recently, scholars have stressed the reformist actions of
center-left parties during the decades following World War II, the
workings of "new" post-industrial politics lately, and a
multifaceted role of politics and state institutions overall.
Alexander Hicks thoroughly revises these views, stressing the
enduring significance of class organizations, however political
embedded, from the era of Bismark until the present.
Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism describes and explains
income security programs in affluent and democratic capitalist
nations, from the proto-democratic innovators of the 1880s to the
globally buffeted democracies of the 1990s. Hicks's account
stresses the reformist role of employee political and economic
organization and derivative institutions, in particular, social
democratic parties, labor unions, and neocorporatist arrangements.
These forces, arrayed as the elements of a transnational and
century-long social democratic movement, give direction and
continuity to the emergence, development, and contestation of
income security policies.
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