Welfare Beyond the Welfare State

The Employment Relationship in Britain and Germany
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-65222-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Utilises a comparative approach, taking the current situation in Germany and the UK as two key cases in comparative political economy 
Proposes that the study of employment based welfare is placed at the core of analyses of welfare societies  
Demonstrates the roles employee welfare can play for companies and workers, and how it has changed throughout modern history 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behling, Felix

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1.Welfare Beyond the Welfare State. The Employment Relationship in Germany and the UK.- Chapter 2. A Blueprint for Mass-employment in the Period of Industrialization.- Chapter 3. Building the Welfare State in the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 4. Employee Welfare in the Shadows of the Post-war Welfare State.- Chapter 5. The Heyday of Welfare States in the Post-Second World War Period.- Chapter 6. Socially (Ir)responsible Companies in the Twenty-first Century.- Chapter 7. The Welfare State and Post-industrial Labour Markets.- Chapter 8. A Long Way Ahead to a Long Way Ahead : Employee Welfare and Women.- Chapter 9. Trade Unions and the Challenge of Employee Welfare.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Felix Behling is a senior researcher at the Sociological Research Institute Göttingen (SOFI), Germany. He is co-editor of The Changing Worlds and Workplaces of Capitalism (Palgrave, 2015).