The Cold War and welfare state development in industrialized countries / edited by Klaus Petersen, Herbert Obinger, Michele Mioni, Carina Schmitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Petersen, Klaus, 1965- editor.

Obinger, Herbert, 1970- editor.

Mioni, Michele, editor.

Schmitt, Carina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Welfare state--History--20th century.

Welfare state.

Welfare state--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

illustration

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

Since the Second World War, the Cold War and the welfare state have been among the largest historical shifts. This book examines the relationship between the two to uncover the impact of international context on social policy developments. 'The Cold War and Welfare State Development in Industrialized Countries' offers a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective on whether, how, and to what extent the Cold War influenced the development of the welfare state in European and North American countries between 1947 and 1989. Linking the two master-narratives of the post-war era, it provides a systematic analysis of possible causal mechanisms linking the Cold War and the welfare state.

Contents:

The cold war–welfare state nexus: an introduction / Klaus Petersen and others

The United States: domestic anticommunism and the uneven development of welfare rights since 1945 / Jonathan Bell

Britain: empire and after / Noel Whiteside

Germany: system competition in a divided country / Herbert Obinger and others

France: securing the republican pact during the Cold War: solidarity, class struggle, and the making of French social security / Michele Mioni

Italy: systemic imperatives and ‘red–white’ political competition shaping an unbalanced welfare state / Matteo Jessoula and Marcello Natili

Sweden, Finland, and Denmark: the Cold War and the Nordic welfare states / Klaus Petersen and others

The Soviet Union: socialist welfare in a Cold War framework / Mark B Smith

Czechoslovakia: from national insurance to the socialist social security / Jakub Rákosník

Polish subaltern modernity: welfare state, accumulation, and the Cold War / Piotr Perkowski

Bulgaria: building a worker–peasant welfare state under the aegis of the Soviet Union / Maria Ignatova-Pfarr

Yugoslavia: social policy beyond the blocs, 1945–90 / Wolfgang Höpken

Conclusion: cold war and the welfare state: a comparative synthesis / Carina Schmitt and others

Epilogue: cold war welfare / Odd Arne Westad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on September 14, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version : Cold War and welfare state development in industrialized countries.

ISBN:

9780198990284

0198990286

OCLC:

1602281002

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