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Author:   Dennie Oude Nijhuis (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780815377917

ISBN 10:   0815377916
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   23 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Analyzing the role of business in welfare state development Part I: Country Studies 2. Business interests and the development of the Bismarckian welfare state 3. Explaining employer support for welfare state development in the Netherlands 4. Business interests and the development of the public-private welfare mix in Switzerland, 1880-1990 5. British employers and the development of state protection for unemployment, sickness and old age, 1900-1990 6. Private or public? Employer attitudes and strategies towards welfare reform in Finland 7. Misrepresented interests: Business, Medicare, and the making of the American health care state Part II: Cross-country comparisons and recent challenges 8. Who controls the workplace? Business and the regulation of job security in Western Europe 9. Employer organizations and the evolution of active labor market policy in Sweden and the United States 10. The business of change: Employers and work-family policy reforms 11. The financial politics of occupational pensions: A business interest's perspective 12. Industrial coordination and vocational training in the postindustrial age 13. Pension privatization as a boon to stock market development? Financial ideas, reform complementarities and the divergent fates of Hungary’s and Poland’s pension fund industries 14. Conclusion: The business of studying business

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Dennie Oude Nijhuis is senior researcher at the Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and lecturer at the Institute for History, Leiden University, Netherlands.

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