Prof. dr. Erik de Gier MA (1948) is professor emeritus, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University. He is an industrial sociologist and expert in American studies. De Gier is also the author of Capitalist Workingman’s Paradises Revisited. Corporate Welfare Work in Great Britain, the USA, Germany and France in the Golden Age of Capitalism, 1880–1930, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2016. In the past he published extensively about industrial relations, working conditions, the labour market, and social security.

• 1. Introduction, 2.Secular and purist origins of enlightened capitalism, 3. Victorian England. From Coketown to Port Sunlight, Bournville and the Garden City Movement, 4. 'The American Way'. Factory system, mass production, welfare capitalism and company towns in the USA, 5.Worker Colonies and Settlements: Joy in Work and Enlightened Entrepreneurs in Germany, 6. France. From the Mulhousian Welfare Work Model to the Taylorist Turn, 7.A Comparison of Welfare Work between Great Britain, the Usa, Germany and France, 8.Learning from Past Experience, Bibliography, Notes

Prof. dr. Erik de Gier MA (1948) is professor emeritus, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University. He is an industrial sociologist and expert in American studies. De Gier is also the author of Capitalist Workingman’s Paradises Revisited. Corporate Welfare Work in Great Britain, the USA, Germany and France in the Golden Age of Capitalism, 1880–1930, published by Amsterdam University Press in 2016. In the past he published extensively about industrial relations, working conditions, the labour market, and social security.

• 1. Introduction, 2.Secular and purist origins of enlightened capitalism, 3. Victorian England. From Coketown to Port Sunlight, Bournville and the Garden City Movement, 4. 'The American Way'. Factory system, mass production, welfare capitalism and company towns in the USA, 5.Worker Colonies and Settlements: Joy in Work and Enlightened Entrepreneurs in Germany, 6. France. From the Mulhousian Welfare Work Model to the Taylorist Turn, 7.A Comparison of Welfare Work between Great Britain, the Usa, Germany and France, 8.Learning from Past Experience, Bibliography, Notes