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.

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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 1980s and 1990s: The End of Paternalism

    • American dominance of the world's industrial economy began to diminish.

  • 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.

  • Modern Applications of DNA

    • The acronym "DNA" has become synonymous with solving crimes, testing for paternity, identifying human remains, and genetic testing.
    • Bacteria, plants, and animals have been genetically modified since the early 1970s for academic, medical, agricultural, and industrial purposes.

  • 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.

  • Childcare

    • Providing benefits such as childcare, maternity/paternity leave, flexible working, and emergency leave is critical for helping employees keep a healthy work/life balance.
    • Providing ample time for maternal and paternal leave is critical to empowering employees to adjust to their new responsibilities.

  • Meiosis II

    • The cells produced are genetically unique because of the random assortment of paternal and maternal homologs and because of the recombining of maternal and paternal segments of chromosomes (with their sets of genes) that occurs during crossover .

  • 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.

  • Sperm

  • The British Textile Industry