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In light of recent trends of corporate downsizing and debates over corporate responsibility, Sanford Jacoby offers a timely, comprehensive history of twentieth-century welfare capitalism, that is, the history of nonunion corporations that looked after the economic security of employees. Building on three fascinating case studies of "modern manors" (Eastman Kodak, Sears, and TRW), Jacoby argues that welfare capitalism did not expire during the Depression, as traditionally thought. Rather it adapted to the challenges of the 1930's and became a powerful, though overlooked, factor in the history of the welfare state, the labor movement, and the corporation. "Fringe" benefits, new forms of employee participation, and sophisticated anti-union policies are just some of the outgrowths of welfare capitalism that provided a model for contemporary employers seeking to create productive nonunion workplaces. Although employer paternalism has faltered in recent years, many Americans still look to corporations, rather than to unions or government, to meet their needs. Jacoby explains why there remains widespread support for the notion that corporations should be the keystone of economic security in American society and offers a perspective on recent business trends. Based on extensive research, Modern Manors greatly advances the study of corporate and union power in the twentieth century.

History of North America --- Economic sociology --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- BE / Belgium - België - Belgique --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 658.310 --- 331.220 --- 331.228 --- 331.19 --- 658.300 --- 658.313 --- Betrekkingen van de arbeiders met de werkgevers: algemeenheden. --- Geschiedenis van de maatschappelijke klassen en bewegingen: algemeenheden. --- Geschiedenis van de vakbonden. --- Geschiedkundige en andere inlichtingen over industriële, financiële en handelsondernemingen. --- Industriële psychologie en ergonomie. Arbeidsverrijking. --- Vertegenwoordiging en medebeheer van het personeel. Arbitrage en bemiddeling in industriële conflicten. --- Welfare state. --- Capitalism --- Economic conditions --- State, Welfare --- Economic policy --- Public welfare --- Social policy --- State, The --- Welfare economics --- Welfare state --- Geschiedkundige en andere inlichtingen over industriële, financiële en handelsondernemingen --- Geschiedenis van de maatschappelijke klassen en bewegingen: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de vakbonden --- Industriële psychologie en ergonomie. Arbeidsverrijking --- Betrekkingen van de arbeiders met de werkgevers: algemeenheden --- Vertegenwoordiging en medebeheer van het personeel. Arbitrage en bemiddeling in industriële conflicten --- United States of America

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Since the 1970s, American unions have shrunk dramatically, as has their economic clout. 'Labor in the Age of Finance' traces the search for new sources of power, showing how unions turned financialization to their advantage. Sanford Jacoby catalogs the array of allies and finance-based tactics labor deployed to stanch membership losses in the private sector. By leveraging pension capital, unions restructured corporate governance around issues like executive pay and accountability. In Congress, they drew on their political influence to press for corporate reforms in the wake of business scandals and the financial crisis. The effort restrained imperial CEOs but could not bridge the divide between workers and owners.

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