Capitalist workingman's paradises revisited : corporate welfare work in Great Britain, the USA, Germany and France in the golden age of capitalism, 1880-1930 /

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This book offers an in-depth exploration of the international phenomenon of enlightened paternalist capitalism and social engineering in the golden age of capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Erik de Gier shows how utopian socialist, religious, and craft-based ideas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gier, H. G. de (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Industrial welfare > History.
Capitalism.
Service social dans l'industrie > Histoire.
Social groups.
HISTORY > Civilization.
HISTORY > Essays.
HISTORY > Reference.
HISTORY > Social History.
Capitalism
Industrial welfare
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface / Gier, Erik de
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Secular and purist origins of enlightened capitalism
  • 3. Victorian England
  • 4. 'The American Way'
  • 5. Worker colonies and settlements, joy in work, and enlightened entrepreneurs in Germany
  • 6. France
  • 7. A comparison of welfare work between Great Britain, the US, Germany, and France
  • 8. Learning from past experience
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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