Welfare Beyond the Welfare State The Employment Relationship in Britain and Germany /

• Main Author: Behling, Felix (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Social policy.; Commercial crimes.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Welfare state.; Labor-History.; Industrial sociology.; Comparative Social Policy.; Corporate Crime.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Labor History.; Sociology of Work.

This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that companies are an integral part of welf...