Modern Manors : : Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal / / Sanford M. Jacoby.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1998]
©1997
Year of Publication:1998
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • One. The Coming of Welfare Capitalism
  • Two. Modernizing Welfare Capitalism
  • Three. Preserving the Past: Eastman Kodak
  • Four. Changing Styles: Sears Roebuck
  • Five. Recasting Company Unions: Thompson Products
  • Six. Beyond the Manor: Politics and Public Opinion
  • Seven. The Cold War of Industrial Relations: Welfare Capitalism and Unionism in the 1950s and After
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Index