industrial paternalism

(noun)

Industrial paternalism is a form of welfare capitalism especially common in the United States. It refers to the practice of businesses providing welfare-like services to employees.

Related Terms

  • welfare capitalism
  • Progressive Era

Examples of industrial paternalism in the following topics:

  • Welfare State Capitalism

    • In this second form of welfare capitalism, also known as industrial paternalism, companies have a two-fold interest in providing these services.
    • Business-led welfare capitalism was only common in American industries that employed skilled labor.
  • The Middle Years

    • Advanced paternal age sharply increases the risk of miscarriage, as well as Down syndrome, schizophrenia, autism, and bipolar disorder.
    • However, the majority of middle-age people in industrialized nations can expect to live into old age.
  • The Absent Father and Serial Fatherhood

    • The adjective "paternal" refers to a father and comparatively to "maternal" for a mother.
    • Whereas the idea of the father complex had originally evolved to deal with the heavy Victorian patriarch, by the new millennium there had developed instead a postmodern preoccupation with the loss of paternal authority, or the absence of the father.
  • Traditional Authority

    • Their interactions with the ruler are based on paternal authority and filial dependence.
    • First, feudalism replaced the paternal relationship of patrimonalism with a contract of allegiance based on knightly militarism.
  • Industrializing Countries

    • Industrializing countries have low standards of living, undeveloped industry, and low Human Development Indices (HDIs).
    • Considering global stratification, industrializing nations are at the middle of the hierarchy.
    • Standards of living in industrializing nations are lower than in developed countries, but range widely depending on whether a nation is rapidly industrializing or is in decline.
    • For example, India is considered a industrializing country.
    • Explain why some scholars use the term 'less-developed country' instead of 'industrializing country'
  • Kinship Patterns

    • Nevertheless, while paternity was unknown in the "full biological sense," for a woman to have a child without having a husband was considered socially undesirable.
  • The Cross-Cultural Perspective

    • To encourage greater paternal involvement in childrearing, a minimum of two months out of the sixteen is required to be used by the "minority" parent, usually the father.
  • Industrialization and the Graying of the Globe

    • One schematic by which one can divide the world is between industrialized and non-industrialized countries.
    • Countries that score poorly on these scales are considered to be non-industrialized, though it should be noted that non-industrialized countries are undergoing the process of industrialization.
    • However, while the trend of a growing older population appears the world over, people in industrialized nations are older than people in non-industrialized nations.
    • Thus, while people in all countries are living longer than prior generations, people in industrialized nations live longer than people in non-industrialized nations.
    • Produce a short debate which shows the pros and cons of industrialization
  • Industrial Cities

    • During the industrial era, cities grew rapidly and became centers of population growth and production.
    • During the industrial era, cities grew rapidly and became centers of population and production.
    • Since the industrial era, that figure, as of the beginning of the 21st century, has risen to nearly 50%.
    • Rapid growth brought urban problems, and industrial-era cities were rife with dangers to health and safety.
    • Rapidly expanding industrial cities could be quite deadly, and were often full of contaminated water and air, and communicable diseases.
  • Industrial Work

    • But this type of production required a new type of labor, industrial labor.
    • Building new industrial machines required enormous investments.
    • Industrial labor is defined as labor in industry.
    • This being said, industrial labor also includes service jobs that rose up alongside, and as a result of, industrial production.
    • Karl Marx referred to industrial laborers as members of the proletariat .
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