The Rise and Decline of Modern Trade Union Insurance, 1900–65

Marco H. D. Leeuwen
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Marco H. D. Leeuwen: Utrecht University

Chapter 4 in Mutual Insurance 1550-2015, 2016, pp 167-217 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Between the fin de siècle and the zenith of the welfare state lay not only two world wars and a Great Depression, but also the rise and decline of micro-insurance provided by modern trade unions. Unions kept alive working models of large-scale micro-insurance and, indeed, developed the only viable such model in the case of unemployment. They did so in a country undergoing economic, religious, political, and social transformation. We will discuss the scope of coverage, and terms and conditions, including those relating to classic insurance issues. We discuss the place of micro-insurance among unionists and the population at large, its place in the political climate of de-pillarization, economic growth, and the egalitarian revolution, and its role in the mixed economy of welfare, where state insurance seemed destined to dominate forever.

Keywords: Trade Union; Moral Hazard; Union Member; Unemployment Benefit; Unemployment Insurance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53110-0_4

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