This book offers an in-depth exploration of the international phenomenon of enlightened paternalist capitalism and social engineering in the golden age of capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Erik de Gier shows how utopian socialist, religious, and craft-based ideas influenced the welfare work and educations programmes offered by paternalistic businesses in different ways from nation to nation, looking closely at sites like the Pullman community in Chicago and Port Sunlight in the UK. De Gier brings the book fully up to date with a brief comparison to contemporary welfare capitalism in our highly flexible working world.
- Cover
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Secular and purist origins of enlightened capitalism
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Robert Owen’s social reforms
- 2.3 Jeremy Bentham and the National Charity Company
- 2.4 French utopian socialism: François Marie Charles Fourier (1772-1837)
- 2.5 Quakers in England, America, and social reform
- 2.6 Conclusion
- 3. Victorian England
- From Coketown to Port Sunlight, Bournville and the Garden City Movement
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The Industrial Revolution in England
- 3.3 Cottonpolis, Coketown, Manchester
- 3.4 The role of labour utopias
- 3.5 Industrial garden cities and welfare capitalism in Britain
- 3.6 Conclusion
- 4. ‘The American Way’
- Factory system, mass production, welfare capitalism, and company towns in the US
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Labour utopias in the US
- 4.3 The Industrial Revolution, the development of the factory system, and mass production in America
- 4.4 Welfare capitalism and model company towns
- 4.5 Conclusion
- 5. Worker colonies and settlements, joy in work, and enlightened entrepreneurs in Germany
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The German industrial revolution
- 5.3 Early welfare work: Worker colonies and settlements and Krupp’s welfare work policy
- 5.4 Social reform movements, factory architecture, and worker Gartenstädte
- 5.5 Quality production and joy in work
- 5.6 Conclusion
- 6. France
- From the Mulhousian welfare work model to the Taylorist Turn
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 The French industrial revolution
- 6.3 The impact of Fourier’s labour utopia in France
- 6.4 Paternalism and social policy in France before 1900
- 6.5 Welfare work and social betterment before 1914
- 6.6 Welfare work during and after the First World War until the 1930s
- 6.7 Conclusion
- 7. A comparison of welfare work between Great Britain, the US, Germany, and France
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Country comparison of welfare work
- 8. Learning from past experience
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of illustrations
- Image 1 – House at Port Sunlight, England, built for the workers
- Image 2 – The shops in Bournville, Birmingham, England
- Image 3 – The town of Pullman, Illinois, USA, East View from Top of the Arcade Building, 19th century
- Image 4 – Fordlandia Dance Hall, Boa Vista, Brazil, circa 1933
- Image 5 – View of Margarethenhöhe, Essen, about 1912, Krupp, Esssen, Germany
- Image 6 – Vue d’ ensemble du Familistère ou Palais social - Overview of the Familistère or Social Palace, Guise, France
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