Welfare Beyond the Welfare State

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

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

Autorentext
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).

Inhalt
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.