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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 under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license:
https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780815377917_oachapter4.pdf
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 under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license:
https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780815377917_oachapter4.pdf
This book examines how the Netherlands managed to create and
maintain one of the world's most generous and inclusive welfare
systems despite having been dominated by Christian-democratic or
YconservativeOE, rather than socialist dominated governments, for
most of the post-war period. It emphasizes that such systems have
strong consequences for the distribution of income and risk among
different segments of society and argues that they could
consequently only emerge in countries where middle class groups
were unable to utilize their key electoral and strong labor market
position to mobilize against the adverse consequences of
redistribution for them. By illustrating their key role in the
coming about of solidaristic welfare reform in the Netherlands, the
book also offers a novel view of the roles of Christian-democracy
and the labor union movement in the development of modern welfare
states. By highlighting how welfare reform contributed to the
employment miracle of the 1990s, the book sheds new light on how
countries are able to combine high levels of welfare generosity and
solidarity with successful macro-economic performance.
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