Solidarity without the state? : business and the shaping of the Swiss welfare state, 1890-2000 /

Solidarity without the state? : business and the shaping of the Swiss welfare state, 1890-2000 /

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Author / Creator:	Leimgruber, Matthieu.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 318 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Welfare state -- Switzerland -- History. Welfare state. Switzerland. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11825922

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ISBN:	9780511497094 0511497091 9780511388101 0511388101 0511384254 9780511384257 9781107405448 1107405440 9780521875400 0521875404
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This book presents the first comprehensive history of the interplay of public and private provision that made the Swiss 'three-pillar' pension system into a model for the World Bank and other pension reformers during the last two decades of the twentieth century. Through a study of business federations', private pension lobbyists' and insurance companies' archives, Matthieu Leimgruber charts the century-long battle waged over the boundaries of state and private pensions. He shows how a distinctive path towards social provision has laid the foundation for a pension fund industry rivalling that of the United States and the United Kingdom. Through this comparative approach Matthieu Leimgruber is also able to question current assumptions about the strict dichotomy between 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'continental' models of welfare provision. This study will appeal to scholars of twentieth-century European history, economic history, political economy and welfare economics.
Other form:	Print version: Leimgruber, Matthieu. Solidarity without the state? Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008 9780521875400

Table of Contents:

The emergence of a pension funds champion. Switzerland in the worlds of welfare
1. The dress rehearsal of pension politics (1890âÇô1914)
2. Laying the foundations of a divided pension system (1914âÇô38)
3. No monster like the Beveridge Plan. The wartime breakthrough of social insurance (1938âÇô48)
4. The three-pillar doctrine and the containment of social insurance (1948âÇô72)
Epilogue. Aging in the shadow of the three pillars (1972âÇô2006)
Conclusion