The postwar capitalism

The "IBM Family": American Welfare Capitalism, Labor, and Gender in Postwar Germany

This article examines corporate labor and gender relations in transatlantic perspective. It is argued that the gendered communication of IBM’s Thomas Watson, Sr. shaped labor relations in his company’s West German subsidiary. In the United States, Watson acted as a business progressive, expanding internationally, opening professional careers to young women, and implementing welfare capitalist m...

the invention of capitalism

Skills , computerization , and earnings in the postwar

GOOD CAPITALISM, BAD CAPITALISM, AND THE ECONOMICS OF GROWTH AND PROSPERITY good capitalism, bad capitalism, and the economics of growth and prosperity

The Political Economy of Capitalism

Capitalism is often defined as an economic system where private actors are allowed to own and control the use of property in accord with their own interests, and where the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism coordinates supply and demand in markets in a way that is automatically in the best interests of society. Government, in this perspective, is often described as responsible for peace, j...