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Welfare capitalism refers to the practice of businesses providing welfare state-like services to employees. Welfare capitalism was centered in high wage industries (not in the industries characterized by low pay, high turnover,
child labor, or dangerous working conditions.) Many companies started offering higher pay and non-monetary compensation such as
health care, housing, and pensions, as well as employment bureaus, in-house training, sports teams and social clubs. In the United States it was pioneered by
George Pullman and
Henry Ford, with high wages and subsidized housing. These coincided with state laws of the Progressive Era that outlawed child labor, imposed minimum wages and maximum hours; women received special protections and restrictions.
Two important goals, articulated by Ford with the $5 dollar daily pay rate, were to reduce turnover and build a long-term loyal labor force that would have higher productivity. The combination of high pay, high efficiency and cheap consumer goods was known as Fordism, and was widely discussed throughout the world.
Led by the railroads and the largest industrial corporations such as the Pullman Car Company, Standard Oil,
International Harvester,
Ford Motor Company and United States Steel, business provided numerous services to its employees, including paid vacations, medical benefits, pensions, recreation facilities and the like. (Brandes 1976) George Pullman built the most famous
company town (
Pullman, Chicago) as a paternalistic experiment - one ruined by the 1894
Pullman strike. For other company housing projects see (Crawford 1996)
By contrast Europe built government operated welfare systems. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Germany and Britain created "safety nets" for the citizens, including public welfare and
unemployment insurance.
Western Europe,
Scandinavia,
Canada and
Australasia are regions noted for their welfare state provisions, though other countries have socialized medicine and other elements of the welfare state as well. The United States, despite its Medicare (United States),
Medicaid and Social Security (United States) provisions, is not generally considered to have enough of a social safety net to properly be called a welfare-state; businesses provide more of these services.
Esping-Andersen categorised three different types of welfare states in the 1990 book '
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism'. Though increasingly criticised, these classifications remain the most commonly used in distinguishing types of modern welfare states, and offer a solid starting point in such analysis.
The three different types are the 'Social Democratic' Model, as exemplified by the Scandinavian countries and particularly Sweden; the 'Liberal' Model, often related to the USA, but also Canada,
Australia and increasingly the United Kingdom; and thirdly, the 'Conservative' Model, which is indicative of Germany, as well as France,
Austria and Italy.[
Wikipedia:Manual of Style] ||
References
- Stuart D. Brandes, American Welfare Capitalism, 1880-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1976)
- Margaret Crawford. Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns (1996)
- John Dixon and Robert P. Scheurell, eds. The State of Social Welfare: The Twentieth Century in Cross-National Review Praeger. 2002.
- Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow; Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA Routledge, 2001
- Derek Fraser. The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of the British Welfare State (2003)
- Alexander Hicks. Social Democracy & Welfare Capitalism (1999)
- Sanford M. Jacoby; Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal Princeton University Press, 1997
- Stein Kuhnle, ed, Survival of the European Welfare State Routledge 2000.
- M. Ramesh; "Welfare Capitalism in East Asia: Social Policy in the Tiger Economies" in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 35, 2005
- Andrea Tone. The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America (1997)
- Walter I. Trattner. From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America (1994)
It should be noted that the original definition of welfare capitalism, as used by the 19th century German economist, Gustav Schmoller, called for government to provide for the welfare of workers and the public, via social legislation, among other means. (And not to rely on business to do this.) While Schmoller's work is little available in English, his influence can be seen in the modern European welfare states.
Welfare capitalism refers to the practice of businesses providing welfare state-like services to employees. Welfare capitalism was centered in high wage industries (not in the industries characterized by low pay, high turnover,
child labor, or dangerous working conditions.) Many companies started offering higher pay and non-monetary compensation such as health care, housing, and pensions, as well as employment bureaus, in-house training, sports teams and social clubs. In the United States it was pioneered by
George Pullman and Henry Ford, with high wages and subsidized housing. These coincided with state laws of the Progressive Era that outlawed child labor, imposed minimum wages and maximum hours; women received special protections and restrictions.
Two important goals, articulated by Ford with the $5 dollar daily pay rate, were to reduce turnover and build a long-term loyal labor force that would have higher productivity. The combination of high pay, high efficiency and cheap consumer goods was known as
Fordism, and was widely discussed throughout the world.
Led by the railroads and the largest industrial corporations such as the Pullman Car Company,
Standard Oil, International Harvester, Ford Motor Company and
United States Steel, business provided numerous services to its employees, including paid vacations, medical benefits, pensions, recreation facilities and the like. (Brandes 1976) George Pullman built the most famous
company town (Pullman, Chicago) as a paternalistic experiment - one ruined by the 1894
Pullman strike. For other company housing projects see (Crawford 1996)
By contrast Europe built government operated welfare systems. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Germany and Britain created "safety nets" for the citizens, including public welfare and
unemployment insurance.
Western Europe,
Scandinavia,
Canada and
Australasia are regions noted for their
welfare state provisions, though other countries have
socialized medicine and other elements of the welfare state as well. The
United States, despite its
Medicare (United States),
Medicaid and Social Security (United States) provisions, is not generally considered to have enough of a social safety net to properly be called a welfare-state; businesses provide more of these services.
Esping-Andersen categorised three different types of welfare states in the 1990 book 'The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism'. Though increasingly criticised, these classifications remain the most commonly used in distinguishing types of modern welfare states, and offer a solid starting point in such analysis.
The three different types are the 'Social Democratic' Model, as exemplified by the Scandinavian countries and particularly Sweden; the 'Liberal' Model, often related to the USA, but also Canada,
Australia and increasingly the
United Kingdom; and thirdly, the 'Conservative' Model, which is indicative of
Germany, as well as France,
Austria and Italy.[Wikipedia:Manual of Style] ||
References
- Stuart D. Brandes, American Welfare Capitalism, 1880-1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1976)
- Margaret Crawford. Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns (1996)
- John Dixon and Robert P. Scheurell, eds. The State of Social Welfare: The Twentieth Century in Cross-National Review Praeger. 2002.
- Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Philip Manow; Comparing Welfare Capitalism: Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA Routledge, 2001
- Derek Fraser. The Evolution of the British Welfare State: A History of the British Welfare State (2003)
- Alexander Hicks. Social Democracy & Welfare Capitalism (1999)
- Sanford M. Jacoby; Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal Princeton University Press, 1997
- Stein Kuhnle, ed, Survival of the European Welfare State Routledge 2000.
- M. Ramesh; "Welfare Capitalism in East Asia: Social Policy in the Tiger Economies" in Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 35, 2005
- Andrea Tone. The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America (1997)
- Walter I. Trattner. From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America (1994)
It should be noted that the original definition of welfare capitalism, as used by the 19th century German economist, Gustav Schmoller, called for government to provide for the welfare of workers and the public, via social legislation, among other means. (And not to rely on business to do this.) While Schmoller's work is little available in English, his influence can be seen in the modern European welfare states.
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