1. Frank Nullmeier, Delia González de Reufels and Herbert Obinger
International interdependencies and the impact on social policies
Part I: Violence and Welfare
2. Herbert Obinger and Carina Schmitt
Introduction: Violence and welfare
3. Herbert Obinger, Carina Schmitt and Laura Seelkopf
Mass warfare and the development of the modern welfare state – an analysis of the Western World, 1914-1950
4. Andreas Heinrich
The emergence of the socialist healthcare model after the First World War
5. Klaus Petersen, Michele Mioni and Herbert Obinger
The Cold War and the welfare state in Western Europe
6. Delia González de Reufels
The coalition between medical doctors and the military: On the establishment of public health in Chile, 1870-1939
7. Amanda Shriwise
Social policy and Britain’s 1929 Colonial Development Act
8. Elsada Diana Cassells, Gabriela de Carvalho and Lorraine Frisina Doetter
The colonial legacy and the Jamaican healthcare system
9. Aline Grünewald
Between aspiration and reality: The effect of the French colonial legacy on old-age pension coverage in Africa
10. Anna Wolkenhauer
The colonial legacies of copper dependence: Inequality and bifurcated social protection in Zambia
11. Alex Veit
Class-based communities: The postcolonial reform of school education in South Africa
Part II: International Organisations and Transnational Diffusion
12. Kerstin Martens and Dennis Niemann
Introduction: International organisations and transnational diffusion
13. Fabian Besche-Truthe, Helen Seitzer and Michael Windzio
Global “cultural spheres” and the introduction of compulsory schooling around the world
14. Jenny Hahs
The ILO beyond Philadelphia
15. Dennis Niemann, David Krogmann and Kerstin Martens
Between economics and education: How international organisations changed the view on education
16. Naho Sugita
The role of the United Nations in promoting the policy debate on child allowance issues in 1960s Japan
17. Gabriela de Carvalho and Lorraine Frisina Doetter
The Washington Consensus and the push for neoliberal social policies in Latin America: The impact of international organisations on Colombian healthcare reform
18. Ertila Druga
World Bank intervention and introduction of Social Health Insurance in Albania
19. Sarah Kassim de Camargo Penteado
Social protection in Mozambique from the 1990s to the 2000s
20. Irene Dingeldey and Jean-Yves Gerlitz
Labour market segmentation, regulation of non-standard employment, and the influence of the EU
21. Tobias Böger, Sonja Drobnič and Johannes Huinink
Pathways to family policy in half a century of population control – international paradigms and national programmes
22. Heiko Pleines
Opposition to the Washington Consensus: The IMF and social policy reforms in post-Soviet Russia
Part III: Globalisation, Economic Interdependencies and Economic Crises
23. Ivo Mossig and Michael Lischka
Introduction: Globalisation, economic interdependencies and economic crises
24. Nils Düpont, Ivo Mossig and Michael Lischka
Economic interdependencies and social expenditures revisited
25. Herbert Obinger and Carina Schmitt
Black swans and the emergence of unemployment insurance in the first half of the Twentieth Century
26. Heiner Fechner
Standard-setting in colonial labour regulation and the Great Depression
27. Simon Gerards-Iglesias
Social reforms and the fear of economic backlash: Political debates on social policy and transnational influences in Argentina in the 1930s
28. Cornelius Torp
International transfers and national path dependencies: Pension systems in Britain and Germany after the Second World War
29. Johanna Kuhlmann and Frank Nullmeier
The formation of a national capital stock and the pension systems in South Korea and Malaysia
30. Magnus Brosig and Karl Hinrichs
The “Great Recession” and pension policy change in European countries
31. Martín Cortina Escudero
Trade and immigration: How international factors shaped social policy in Argentina
Part IV: Transnational social movements and expert networks
32. Delia González de Reufels and Frank Nullmeier
Introduction: Transnational social movements and expert networks
33. Tao Liu and Tong Tian
Relations between Germany and China and the rise of the social insurance state in China since the economic reform of 1978
34. Johanna Fischer, Hongsoo Kim, Lorraine Frisina Doetter and Heinz Rothgang
Social long-term care insurance: An idea traveling between countries?
35. Monika Ewa Kaminska
Variations on Bismarck: Translations of social health insurance in post-communist healthcare reforms in Central and Eastern Europe – the role of vertical and horizontal interdependencies
36. Ulrich Mückenberger
A quest for equity: Labour standards on the transnational move
37. Teresa Huhle
Did migrants build the welfare state? Migration as a social policy driver in early twentieth century Uruguay
38. Tao Liu and Tobias ten Brink
Social protection for migrant workers in China
39. Friederike Römer
Differentiation of welfare rights for migrants in Western countries 1970 to present
40. Karin Gottschall, Kristin Noack and Heinz Rothgang
Dependencies of long-term care policy and East-West migration – The case of Germany
Conclusions
41. Frank Nullmeier, Delia González de Reufels and Herbert Obinger
By way of conclusion: Future research
Frank Nullmeier is Professor of Political Science and State Theory at SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany.
Delia González des Reufels is Professor of Latin American History at the Institute of History, University of Bremen, Germany.
Herbert Obinger is a Professor of Comparative Public and Social Policy at SOCIUM – Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Germany.
This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each chapter highlights a specific type of interdependence which has been identified to provide us with a nuanced understanding of specific social policy developments at discrete points in history. The volume is divided into four parts that are concerned with a particular type of cross-border interrelation. The four parts examine the impact on social policy of trade relations and economic crises, violence, international organisations and cross-border communication and migration. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in the field of social policy, global history and welfare state research from diverse disciplines: sociology, political science, history, law and economics.