Business Interests in the Welfare State. The Strategies of Sweden’s Business Associations during the Twentieth Century (Niklas Stenlås)

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Business Associations ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
The Welfare State

scholarly journals Perspectiva bioética del Trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad (TDAH)

Bioderecho.es ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego José García Capilla ◽  
María José Torralba Madrid
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Right ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
The Welfare State

La aparición del Estado del bienestar a mitad del siglo XX tuvo consecuencias sanitarias que culminan con el reconocimiento del derecho a la protección de la salud y el deber de asistencia sanitaria del Estado, con una extensión de la medicina a campos desconocidos, medicalizando la vida de las personas. El TDAH es un caso paradigmático, convirtiéndose en una patología psiquiátrica a partir de su inclusión en el DSM-III 1980, con inconsistencias y subjetividad en las clasificaciones. La etiología del trastorno es desconocida, su diagnóstico es subjetivo y dudoso, su tratamiento poco efectivo y con riesgos, incrementando el número de casos diagnosticados y los beneficios de la industria farmacéutica. Desde la Bioética se impone una reflexión sobre los posible daños derivados de la medicalización (no-maleficencia), una prudente actuación de los profesional (beneficencia), respeto al criterio de niños y adolescentes (autonomía) y una perspectiva crítica en relación con el gasto derivado de su diagnóstico (justicia). The emergence of the welfare state in the mid-twentieth century had health consequences that culminated in the recognition of the right to health protection and the duty of health care of the State, with an extension of medicine to unknown fields, medicalizing the life of people. ADHD is a paradigmatic case, becoming a psychiatric pathology due to its inclusion in the DSM-III 1980, with inconsistencies and subjectivity in the classifications. The etiology of the disorder is unknown, its diagnosis is subjective and doubtful, its treatment ineffective and with risks, increasing the number of cases diagnosed and the benefits of the pharmaceutical industry. From the Bioethics a reflection on the possible damages derived from the medicalization (nonmaleficence), a prudent action of the professional (beneficence), respect to the criterion of children and adolescents (autonomy) and a critical perspective in relation to the expense is imposed derived from his diagnosis (justice).

Creating the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Twentieth-Century Reform

1981 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Stuart D. Brandes ◽  
Edward Berkowitz ◽  
Kim McQuaid
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Welfare State

Firms and Social Protection: An Event Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (14) ◽  
pp. 1974-2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Watson ◽  
Raj Arunachalam
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Event Study ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Class Versus ◽  
Business Interests ◽  
Strategic Incentives ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Welfare State

How should we understand business interests in the welfare state when firms have strategic incentives to misrepresent their preferences? This article uses an event study to uncover firms’ preferences over social protection. We use the stock market’s response to proposed legal changes in employment and wage protection to test class- versus skill-based understandings of employer preferences. Using data from France between 1997 and 2003, we find evidence in favor of the skill-centered approach.

scholarly journals The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History

2008 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Cowie ◽  
Nick Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
New Deal ◽  
American History ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
The New Deal ◽  
The Welfare State

Abstract“The Long Exception” examines the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the end of the twentieth century and argues that the New Deal was more of an historical aberration—a byproduct of the massive crisis of the Great Depression—than the linear triumph of the welfare state. The depth of the Depression undoubtedly forced the realignment of American politics and class relations for decades, but, it is argued, there is more continuity in American politics between the periods before the New Deal order and those after its decline than there is between the postwar era and the rest of American history. Indeed, by the early seventies the arc of American history had fallen back upon itself. While liberals of the seventies and eighties waited for a return to what they regarded as the normality of the New Deal order, they were actually living in the final days of what Paul Krugman later called the “interregnum between Gilded Ages.” The article examines four central themes in building this argument: race, religion, class, and individualism.

Maternalism and Citizenship in Weimar Germany: the Gendered Politics of Welfare

1997 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Eley ◽  
Atina Grossmann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Democratic Citizenship ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Political Value ◽  
The Welfare State

The three papers collected here present important arguments concerning the gendered context and content of the Weimar welfare state. They unsettle our abilityto judge the origins, the efficacy, and the abstract political value of the welfare state and its democratic claims; they have much to say about twentieth-century women's history and the coordinates of feminist politics in the period between the early 1900s and the 1960s; they have vital lessons for a politics of democratic citizenship; and they all demonstrate the payoff of taking gender seriously as a useful category of historical analysis. In fact, gender seems to have acquired particular salience, in especially public and visible ways, in the period dealt with by these papers.

Liberalism and the Welfare State in Britain, 1890–1945

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger E. Backhouse ◽  
Bradley W. Bateman ◽  
Tamotsu Nishizawa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
World War ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Labour Government ◽  
John Maynard Keynes ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter establishes that the British welfare state was the creation of Liberals as much as socialists. By the early twentieth century, the “New Liberalism” was moving the Liberal Party away from Gladstonian Liberalism, and the Asquith government took major steps toward a welfare state before World War I. The economists arguing for the welfare state included many Liberals, notably Alfred Marshall, J. A. Hobson, A. C. Pigou, William Beveridge, and John Maynard Keynes. British Liberalism was varied, and influential strands within it were strongly supportive of the welfare state. Beveridge and Keynes, in particular, were responsible for much of the intellectual architecture of the welfare state as it was implemented by the first postwar Labour government of Clement Attlee.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Rymph
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
The State ◽  
Child Welfare Professionals ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relevant Work ◽  
The Welfare State

The introduction describes aspects of the state of foster care today, noting that child welfare professionals in the early twentieth century had been optimistic that they could create a much better system than what has emerged. The introduction also surveys relevant work by historians that has addressed the history of inequality in the welfare state and the history of adoption, remarking that foster care is significant to both subjects but has not been systematically studied by historians.

The Big House

British Gods ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Steve Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Local Ties ◽  
Similar Role ◽  
Big House ◽  
The Welfare State ◽  
Local Firms

For centuries, Britain’s religious life benefited from the patronage of local grandees: in rural areas major landowners were obliged by custom and by law to support the churches, and in the growing towns and cities of the nineteenth century industrialists performed a similar role. Those social obligations collapsed abruptly in the early twentieth century with the decline of the Big House, the amalgamation of local firms into national and then international companies, the growth of democracy, and the rise of the welfare state. The personally religious wealthy continued to fund religion, but the breaking of local ties released those of little faith from any obligation to promote Christianity. That change seriously weakened the churches.

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