Capitalist Workingman's Paradises Revisited : : Corporate Welfare Work in Great Britain, the USA, Germany and France in the Golden Age of Capitalism, 1880-1930 / / Erik de Gier.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 6 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- 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