Overview
- 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
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Keywords
- Social policy
- Work
- Sociology
- in-work welfare
- Capitalism
- United Kingdom
- austerity politics
- welfare state
- Germany
- Employee welfare
- Fordist employment model
- mass employment
- industrialisation
- post-war era
- corporate housing programmes
- health-care facilities
- governmental welfare benefits
- exploitation
- Trade unions
- corporate crime
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“What makes this book unique in comparison to other books on the welfare topic is that it takes the employment relationship as the base and employers, especially the founders of the business, as the main actors, rather than, as found in traditional works, identifying the ‘state as the main actor alongside a few other institutional organisations’ … .” (Abhishek, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 22 (1), 2020)
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Book Title: Welfare Beyond the Welfare State
Book Subtitle: The Employment Relationship in Britain and Germany
Authors: Felix Behling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65223-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65222-1Published: 24 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87978-9Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65223-8Published: 12 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 295
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Social Policy, Corporate Crime, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Politics of the Welfare State, Labor History, Sociology of Work