The Privatization of Social Policy?: Occupational Welfare and the Welfare State in America, Scandinavia and Japan

by Michael Shalev (Editor)

Overview

Occupational welfare is a distinctive solution to contemporary social policy dilemmas. Though it plays a substantial role in many countries, especially in pension provision, occupational welfare and its subtle links to the welfare state have been largely neglected by social scientists. This book, a collaborative effort by a distinguished group of experts, offers in-depth studies of occupational welfare in the US and Scandinavia. These chapters are complemented by discussions of two partially contrasting cases (Canada and Japan), an introductory overview, and a concluding comparative analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312164379
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/14/1996
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	383
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors - List of Figures and Tables - Acknowledgements - Introduction; M.Shalev - PART 1: THE UNITED STATES - Is America Exceptional? The Role of Occupational Welfare in the United States and the European Community; M.Rein - From Welfare Capitalism to the Welfare State: Marion B. Folsom and the Social Security Act of 1935 - S.M.Jacoby - Labour Unions and the Privatization of Welfare: The Turning Point in the 1940s; B.Stevens - Public Policy and the Rise of Private Pensions: The US Experience since 1930; F.Dobbin & T.Boychuk -Private Pensions, State Regulation and Income Security for Older Workers: The US Auto Industry; J.Quadagno & M.Hardy - PART 2: SCANDINAVIA - Public and Occupational Pensions in the Nordic Countries; E.Overbye - The Labour Movement, Social Policy and Occupational Welfare in Norway; J.M.Hippe & A.W.Pedersen - The Development of Occupational Pensions in Finland and Sweden: Class Politics and Institutional Feedbacks; O.Kangas & J.Palme - Danish Occupational Pensions in the 1980s: From Social Security to Political Economy; F.von Nordheim Nielsen - PART 3: CANADA AND JAPAN - Between American Exceptionalism and Social Democracy: Public and Private Pensions in Canada; G.M.Olsen & R.J.Brym - Occupational Welfare and the Japanese Experience; T.Skinkawa & T.J.Pempel - Conclusion: Occupational Welfare in the Social Policy Nexus; G.Esping-Andersen - References

Editorial Reviews

Proposes the collective yet private form of social protection called occupational welfare, of which pension provision is the best known example, as a solution to contemporary policy dilemmas. The 11 papers presented at the 1990 World Congress of Sociology in Madrid examine the history and status of such systems in the US and Scandinavia and offer comparisons with those in Canada and Japan. The introduction sets a context by discussing the difference between state and occupational welfare, private versus public welfare, qualitative social rights, and protection versus benefits. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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