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Article: Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal.(Review)
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- Administrative Science Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal. Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 345 pp. $35.00.
In Modern Manors, Jacoby sets out to amend our understanding of welfare capitalism and succeeds admirably. Under welfare capitalism, employers attempted to build career jobs for what had been a transient workforce by offering relatively generous wages and health and pension benefits, establishing company unions and educational programs, and constructing cleaner factories and elaborate recreational facilities. The mainstream view among labor historians and other students of industrial relations is that this movement peaked during ...
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