The politics of social risk: business and welfare state development /
Isabela Mares.
- New York: Cambridge university press, 2003.
- xvii, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes references and index.
Contents: The welfare state: A world against employers -- Interests and coalitions in the development of the modern welfare state -- Workplace accidents as social risks :Employers and the development of the modern welfare state -- Is unemployment insurable?Employers and the development of unemployment insurance -- Unified or occupationally fragmented insurance? political reforms during the postwar years -- Risk redistributed in mature welfare states : the politics of early retirement -- Conclusions.