 Welfare Policy in German Big Business after the First World War: Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, 1926-33Susanne Hilger Business History, 1998, vol. 40, issue 1, 50-76 Abstract: According to A.D. Chandler, Jr, the rise of organisational capabilities in German enterprises was decisive for the international economic success of the German Reich before 1914. This article deals with the changes in the organisational structures of enterprises through concentration and diversification and their consequences for welfare policy in German industry. The central question is to what extent the changing organisational structures affected the quality and quantity of welfare provided by companies. The interactions between welfare policy and organisation can be illustrated by the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG (VSt), the world's second largest iron and steel combine, next to US Steel, in the first half of the twentieth century. After a survey of the traditions of business welfare in Germany since the early nineteenth century, important aspects of industrial welfare policy, such as health insurance, company stores and housing, are analysed in the context of the VSt's organisational development between 1926 and 1933. Date: 1998 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:bushst:v:40:y:1998:i:1:p:50-76 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/00076799800000120 Access Statistics for this article Business History is currently edited by Professor John Wilson and Professor Steven Toms More articles in Business History from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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