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Modern Manors

Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal

Sanford M. Jacoby

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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Wirtschaft

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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 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.

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National Civic Federation, Harrington Emerson, Henry A. Wallace, Core business, Employment, Welfare, Corporate liberalism, Eric Johnston, Supervisor, Walter Reuther, Profi, Structural unemployment, Jimmy Hoffa, America First Committee, Strikebreaker, Fair Deal, Sewell Avery, Trade union, Industrial unionism, Operation Dixie, Rotary International, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, New class, Company union, National Labor Relations Act, Donald M. Nelson, Statism, NCR Corporation, National Recovery Administration, Home appliance, Job security, Industrial Workers of the World, Industrial relations, Boulwarism, Big labor, La Follette Committee, Progressive Era, Layoff, Labor unrest, Social Security Act, American Federation of Labor, Joseph Alsop, Welfare capitalism, Unemployment, Interest of the company, Business ethics, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, National Industrial Recovery Act, Participatory management, Marriage bar, Un-American, Fair trade law, Iron law of oligarchy, Radical right (United States), Dave Beck, Consumer economy, Flint sit-down strike, Phrenology, Lemuel Boulware, American Liberty League, One Big Union (concept), Sidney Hillman, John Maynard Keynes, Industrial espionage, Economics, Huey Long, The End of Ideology, Labor history of the United States, Superiority (short story), Tax