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Опубликовано на портале: 12-11-2007
Sanford M. Jacoby
Изд-во: Princeton University Press, 1998, 360 с.
Winner of the 1998 Taft Labor History Award of the School of Industrial and Labor
Relations. One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1998. 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 1930s 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.


