Felix Behling

eBook, PDF

Welfare Beyond the Welfare State (eBook, PDF)

The Employment Relationship in Britain and Germany

Beschreibung

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

Technische Details

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• Größe: 3.05MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319652238
• Artikelnr.: 52945761

Rezensionen

"What makes this book unique in comparison to other books on the welfare topic is that it takes the employment relationship as the base and employers, especially the founders of the business, as the main actors, rather than, as found in traditional works, identifying the 'state as the main actor alongside a few other institutional organisations' ... ." (Abhishek, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 22 (1), 2020)