The German government introduced compulsory accident insurance for industrial firms in 1884. This insurance scheme was one of the main pillars of Bismarck's famous social insurance system. The accident-insurance system achieved only one of its intended goals: it successfully compensated workers...

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...

The German government introduced compulsory accident insurance for industrial firms in 1884. This insurance scheme was one of the main pillars of Bismarck's famous social insurance system. The accident-insurance system achieved only one of its intended goals: it successfully compensated workers...

The introduction explores the main theoretical positions taken in this book. Contrary to twentieth-century neoliberal or nineteenth-century wage fund theories, it starts from the assumption that trade unions are a necessary and integral part of the functioning of labour markets in societies...

The German government introduced compulsory accident insurance for industrial firms in 1884. This insurance scheme was one of the main pillars of Bismarck’s famous social insurance system. The accident-insurance system achieved only one of its intended goals: it successfully compensated...

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...

In ihrer nunmehr über 125-jährigen Unternehmensgeschichte besaß die Sicherung der Rohstoffversorgung einen hohen Stellenwert innerhalb der strategischen Unternehmensführung der Henkel-Gruppe. Die größten strategischen Aufwendungen zur Rohstoffsicherung unternahm die Henkel-Gruppe auf dem...

In diesem Papier ist der zweite Experten-Workshop zum Forschungsprojekt Anpassungs- und Modernisierungsprozesse im System arbeitsweltbezogener Präventions-akteure* dokumentiert, der von der WZB-Arbeitsgruppe Public Health in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ministerium für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit und...