Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Biographic Data
| ID | 379937 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennie Oude Nijhuis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennie Oude |
| FAMILY NAME | Nijhuis |
| SIGNATURE | NIJHUIS D O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2595-5199 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands
Scholars have long recognized the importance of so-called 'Ghent' systems of unemployment insurance for working-class strength and therefore national capitalist development. While only three European countries currently maintain 'pure' Ghent systems, nearly a dozen did so during the first half of the last century. This article investigates the discontinuation of these systems in two paradigmatic cases, Belgium and the Netherlands. By focusing on …
Long-Term Strategic Thinking, Cost Considerations, and the Partisan Politics of Ghent
It has long been established that the presence of the so-called “Ghent systems” of unemployment insurance greatly enhances unionization rates. This paper investigates the political determinants of the choice for and against the introduction and continuation of these systems. Based on a diachronic analysis of three paradigmatic cases, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden, and two shadow cases, Germany and Britain, it shows that all major actors we…
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in the Low Countries: The case of the Netherlands
Christian Democracy, Labor, and the Postwar Politics of Old-Age Pension Reform
Christian-democratic parties not only constituted the most successful political force in much of Western Europe during most of the twentieth century; their attitudes toward solidaristic welfare reform have arguably also been more diverse than have those of most other major political groupings during this period. Whereas existing studies have mostly attributed this variation to electoral or strategic considerations, this article emphasizes the imp…
The Puzzle of Dutch Welfare Solidarity and the Politics of Old Age Pension Reform (1945-1975)
During the first three decades of the post-war period, the Netherlands developed a system of welfare provision that by most standards belonged to the most equitable and solidaristic in the world. It did so under the patronage of Christian democratic governments, which are generally viewed as being predisposed to rejecting solidaristic welfare reform. The purpose of this article is to explain why the Dutch Christian democrats came to adopt such a …
Middle-class interests, redistribution and the postwar success and failure of the solidaristic welfare state
According to the conventional view of over three decades of research on the welfare state, the postwar success of solidaristic welfare reform depended on the left’s ability to ‘tailor’ to middle-class interests or at least ‘synthesize’ working- and middle-class demands. This article offers a different perspective on the dynamics of postwar solidaristic welfare reform. It argues that key middle-class groups such as skilled wage earners often had a…
Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination: Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems
Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have different historical patterns of industrialization, but developed similar patterns of industrial coordination and cooperation. Theories accounting for industrial relations systems (economic structure, power resources, and party/electoral systems) have difficulty accounting for the similarities among these cases. Therefore, we explore the historical depictions of labor appearing in literature to evaluate wh…
Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State
This chapter suggests that one needs to look beyond national-level structures of industrial coordination to grasp how political pacts for vocational education and institutions for business-labor cooperation are being reinvented. Many believe that a revamping of vocational education for the post-industrial economy is necessary both to invest skills in services and to provide education for non-academic youth. The chapter discusses the relationship …
Explaining Employer Support for Welfare State Development in The Netherlands
In recent years, business-centered explanations of welfare state development have challenged conventional perspectives on the welfare state. This new scholarship argues that employer and other business groups have acted as major proponents of welfare state expansion during crucial moments in history. This article investigates the claims of this new scholarship through an analysis of the attitudes of the main employer associations towards the intr…
Business, labour and the costs of welfare state development
This article presents a novel explanation for instances of business support for welfare state expansion. It emphasizes the importance of cost considerations in shaping business preferences and argues that their willingness to support and ability to oppose demands for increases in the generosity of social insurance programmes depends primarily on the extent to which labour unions accept that these increases are to be financed by workers themselves…
Explaining postwar wage compression
One of the main problems confronting labor unions during wage bargaining is how to deal with the conflicting demands of different groups of workers over the division of labor market earnings. This article explains how their internal organizational blueprint determines how they deal with this and criticizes the scholarly preoccupation with union density and wage bargaining centralization as explanatory variables for cross-national and temporal var…
The TUC and the Failure of Labour's Postwar Social Agenda
This article illustrates the crucial role played by the Trades Union Congress and its occupationally organized union affiliates in the failure of Labour's postwar social agenda. It has been widely recognized that Labour's inability to improve the social insurance system and construct an effective floor under wages during the first decades of the postwar period was of crucial importance to the continual underdevelopment of the British welfare stat…
The evolution of the Dutch CME and different political coalitions
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Labour divisions and the emergence of dual welfare systems
This article illustrates the possibility of consistent labour union opposition to redistributive welfare state expansion and demonstrates its importance for the postwar emergence of so-called dual welfare systems. In recent years, scholars have paid much attention to the postwar welfare trajectories of countries where social policies came to stratify rather than reduce social inequalities. Yet, they have paid little attention to the importance of…
Low Pay, Wage Relativities, and Labour’s First Attempt to Introduce a Statutory National Minimum Wage in the United Kingdom
This article highlights the distributive considerations behind the longstanding opposition of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) to the introduction of a statutory national minimum wage in the United Kingdom. Possibly because of its strong preoccupation with class divisions, the existing literature on labor market development has failed to fully recognize the importance of these considerations in shaping the TUC’s longstanding opposition to …
Incomes policies, welfare state development and the notion of the social wage
Journal Article Incomes policies, welfare state development and the notion of the social wage Get access Dennie Oude Nijhuis Dennie Oude Nijhuis * Leiden University, The Netherlands *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 13, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 771–790, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwv010 Published: 27 June 2015
Labor Divided in the Postwar European Welfare State: The Netherlands and the United Kingdom
This book explains how the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom depended on organized labor's willingness to support redistribution of risk and income among different groups of workers. By illuminating and explaining differences within and between labor union movements, it traces the historical origins of 'inclusive' and 'dual' welfare systems. In doing so, the book sh…
Contextual Influences and the Dutch Rejection of the Eu Constitutional Treaty: Understanding Municipality Differences
In this paper we study the Dutch rejection of the Constitutional Treaty during the 2005 referendum by comparing the outcomes among the Dutch municipalities. This approach is ideally suited to illustrate the importance of contextual influences on voting outcomes. In addition, it gives excellent statistical opportunities to re‐analyse some of the hypotheses used in previous studies. Based on the existing literature we developed six hypotheses that …
Explaining British voluntarism
This article deals with one of the most distinctive features of the British system of industrial relations – its voluntarist nature – and focuses on internal divisions within the labor union movement as an explanation for its persistence. It is widely recognized that the British labor union movement was throughout the twentieth century far more reluctant to accept government interference with wage bargaining than its counterparts in most other co…
Een monsterverbond? Werkgeversorganisaties en het gebruik van de Wet op de arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering om overtollige werknemers te laten afvloeien
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Rethinking the Beveridge Strait-jacket: The Labour Party, the TUC and the Introduction of Superannuation
Journal Article Rethinking the Beveridge Strait-jacket: The Labour Party, the TUC and the Introduction of Superannuation Get access Dennie Oude Nijhuis Dennie Oude Nijhuis * University of Leiden *[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 370–395, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwp016 Published: 12 May 2009
Revisiting the Role of Labor: Worker Solidarity, Employer Opposition, and the Development of Old-Age Pensions in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
The purpose of this article is to emphasize the importance of the organizational blueprint of labor unions for welfare state outcomes. As a result of the tendency of scholars to view labor as a homogenous and disadvantaged class, the existing literature has paid little attention to this. Many scholars have simply taken labor union support for welfare state development for granted and consequently have focused only on labor union strength. This ar…
Revisiting the Role of Labor: Worker Solidarity, Employer Opposition, and the Development of Old-Age Pensions in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
The purpose of this article is to emphasize the importance of the organizational blueprint of labor unions for welfare state outcomes. As a result of the tendency of scholars to view labor as a homogenous and disadvantaged class, the existing literature has paid little attention to this. Many scholars have simply taken labor union support for welfare state development for granted and consequently have focused only on labor union strength. This ar…
Explaining postwar wage compression
One of the main problems confronting labor unions during wage bargaining is how to deal with the conflicting demands of different groups of workers over the division of labor market earnings. This article explains how their internal organizational blueprint determines how they deal with this and criticizes the scholarly preoccupation with union density and wage bargaining centralization as explanatory variables for cross-national and temporal var…
Christian Democracy, Labor, and the Postwar Politics of Old-Age Pension Reform
Christian-democratic parties not only constituted the most successful political force in much of Western Europe during most of the twentieth century; their attitudes toward solidaristic welfare reform have arguably also been more diverse than have those of most other major political groupings during this period. Whereas existing studies have mostly attributed this variation to electoral or strategic considerations, this article emphasizes the imp…
Business, labour and the costs of welfare state development
This article presents a novel explanation for instances of business support for welfare state expansion. It emphasizes the importance of cost considerations in shaping business preferences and argues that their willingness to support and ability to oppose demands for increases in the generosity of social insurance programmes depends primarily on the extent to which labour unions accept that these increases are to be financed by workers themselves…
Labour divisions and the emergence of dual welfare systems
This article illustrates the possibility of consistent labour union opposition to redistributive welfare state expansion and demonstrates its importance for the postwar emergence of so-called dual welfare systems. In recent years, scholars have paid much attention to the postwar welfare trajectories of countries where social policies came to stratify rather than reduce social inequalities. Yet, they have paid little attention to the importance of…
Rethinking the Beveridge Strait-jacket: The Labour Party, the TUC and the Introduction of Superannuation
Journal Article Rethinking the Beveridge Strait-jacket: The Labour Party, the TUC and the Introduction of Superannuation Get access Dennie Oude Nijhuis Dennie Oude Nijhuis * University of Leiden *[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 370–395, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwp016 Published: 12 May 2009
Middle-class interests, redistribution and the postwar success and failure of the solidaristic welfare state
According to the conventional view of over three decades of research on the welfare state, the postwar success of solidaristic welfare reform depended on the left’s ability to ‘tailor’ to middle-class interests or at least ‘synthesize’ working- and middle-class demands. This article offers a different perspective on the dynamics of postwar solidaristic welfare reform. It argues that key middle-class groups such as skilled wage earners often had a…
The TUC and the Failure of Labour's Postwar Social Agenda
This article illustrates the crucial role played by the Trades Union Congress and its occupationally organized union affiliates in the failure of Labour's postwar social agenda. It has been widely recognized that Labour's inability to improve the social insurance system and construct an effective floor under wages during the first decades of the postwar period was of crucial importance to the continual underdevelopment of the British welfare stat…
Low Pay, Wage Relativities, and Labour’s First Attempt to Introduce a Statutory National Minimum Wage in the United Kingdom
This article highlights the distributive considerations behind the longstanding opposition of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) to the introduction of a statutory national minimum wage in the United Kingdom. Possibly because of its strong preoccupation with class divisions, the existing literature on labor market development has failed to fully recognize the importance of these considerations in shaping the TUC’s longstanding opposition to …
Contextual Influences and the Dutch Rejection of the Eu Constitutional Treaty: Understanding Municipality Differences
In this paper we study the Dutch rejection of the Constitutional Treaty during the 2005 referendum by comparing the outcomes among the Dutch municipalities. This approach is ideally suited to illustrate the importance of contextual influences on voting outcomes. In addition, it gives excellent statistical opportunities to re‐analyse some of the hypotheses used in previous studies. Based on the existing literature we developed six hypotheses that …
Explaining British voluntarism
This article deals with one of the most distinctive features of the British system of industrial relations – its voluntarist nature – and focuses on internal divisions within the labor union movement as an explanation for its persistence. It is widely recognized that the British labor union movement was throughout the twentieth century far more reluctant to accept government interference with wage bargaining than its counterparts in most other co…
Rethinking the Beveridge Strait-jacket: The Labour Party, the TUC and the Introduction of Superannuation
Journal Article Rethinking the Beveridge Strait-jacket: The Labour Party, the TUC and the Introduction of Superannuation Get access Dennie Oude Nijhuis Dennie Oude Nijhuis * University of Leiden *[email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British History, Volume 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 370–395, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwp016 Published: 12 May 2009
Revisiting the Role of Labor: Worker Solidarity, Employer Opposition, and the Development of Old-Age Pensions in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
The purpose of this article is to emphasize the importance of the organizational blueprint of labor unions for welfare state outcomes. As a result of the tendency of scholars to view labor as a homogenous and disadvantaged class, the existing literature has paid little attention to this. Many scholars have simply taken labor union support for welfare state development for granted and consequently have focused only on labor union strength. This ar…
Een monsterverbond? Werkgeversorganisaties en het gebruik van de Wet op de arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering om overtollige werknemers te laten afvloeien
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Contextual Influences and the Dutch Rejection of the Eu Constitutional Treaty: Understanding Municipality Differences
In this paper we study the Dutch rejection of the Constitutional Treaty during the 2005 referendum by comparing the outcomes among the Dutch municipalities. This approach is ideally suited to illustrate the importance of contextual influences on voting outcomes. In addition, it gives excellent statistical opportunities to re‐analyse some of the hypotheses used in previous studies. Based on the existing literature we developed six hypotheses that …
Explaining British voluntarism
This article deals with one of the most distinctive features of the British system of industrial relations – its voluntarist nature – and focuses on internal divisions within the labor union movement as an explanation for its persistence. It is widely recognized that the British labor union movement was throughout the twentieth century far more reluctant to accept government interference with wage bargaining than its counterparts in most other co…
Labor Divided in the Postwar European Welfare State: The Netherlands and the United Kingdom
This book explains how the success of attempts to expand the boundaries of the postwar welfare state in The Netherlands and the United Kingdom depended on organized labor's willingness to support redistribution of risk and income among different groups of workers. By illuminating and explaining differences within and between labor union movements, it traces the historical origins of 'inclusive' and 'dual' welfare systems. In doing so, the book sh…
The evolution of the Dutch CME and different political coalitions
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Labour divisions and the emergence of dual welfare systems
This article illustrates the possibility of consistent labour union opposition to redistributive welfare state expansion and demonstrates its importance for the postwar emergence of so-called dual welfare systems. In recent years, scholars have paid much attention to the postwar welfare trajectories of countries where social policies came to stratify rather than reduce social inequalities. Yet, they have paid little attention to the importance of…
Low Pay, Wage Relativities, and Labour’s First Attempt to Introduce a Statutory National Minimum Wage in the United Kingdom
This article highlights the distributive considerations behind the longstanding opposition of the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) to the introduction of a statutory national minimum wage in the United Kingdom. Possibly because of its strong preoccupation with class divisions, the existing literature on labor market development has failed to fully recognize the importance of these considerations in shaping the TUC’s longstanding opposition to …
Incomes policies, welfare state development and the notion of the social wage
Journal Article Incomes policies, welfare state development and the notion of the social wage Get access Dennie Oude Nijhuis Dennie Oude Nijhuis * Leiden University, The Netherlands *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Socio-Economic Review, Volume 13, Issue 4, October 2015, Pages 771–790, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwv010 Published: 27 June 2015
The TUC and the Failure of Labour's Postwar Social Agenda
This article illustrates the crucial role played by the Trades Union Congress and its occupationally organized union affiliates in the failure of Labour's postwar social agenda. It has been widely recognized that Labour's inability to improve the social insurance system and construct an effective floor under wages during the first decades of the postwar period was of crucial importance to the continual underdevelopment of the British welfare stat…
Explaining postwar wage compression
One of the main problems confronting labor unions during wage bargaining is how to deal with the conflicting demands of different groups of workers over the division of labor market earnings. This article explains how their internal organizational blueprint determines how they deal with this and criticizes the scholarly preoccupation with union density and wage bargaining centralization as explanatory variables for cross-national and temporal var…
Business Interests and the Development of the Modern Welfare State
This chapter suggests that one needs to look beyond national-level structures of industrial coordination to grasp how political pacts for vocational education and institutions for business-labor cooperation are being reinvented. Many believe that a revamping of vocational education for the post-industrial economy is necessary both to invest skills in services and to provide education for non-academic youth. The chapter discusses the relationship …
Explaining Employer Support for Welfare State Development in The Netherlands
In recent years, business-centered explanations of welfare state development have challenged conventional perspectives on the welfare state. This new scholarship argues that employer and other business groups have acted as major proponents of welfare state expansion during crucial moments in history. This article investigates the claims of this new scholarship through an analysis of the attitudes of the main employer associations towards the intr…
Business, labour and the costs of welfare state development
This article presents a novel explanation for instances of business support for welfare state expansion. It emphasizes the importance of cost considerations in shaping business preferences and argues that their willingness to support and ability to oppose demands for increases in the generosity of social insurance programmes depends primarily on the extent to which labour unions accept that these increases are to be financed by workers themselves…
The Puzzle of Dutch Welfare Solidarity and the Politics of Old Age Pension Reform (1945-1975)
During the first three decades of the post-war period, the Netherlands developed a system of welfare provision that by most standards belonged to the most equitable and solidaristic in the world. It did so under the patronage of Christian democratic governments, which are generally viewed as being predisposed to rejecting solidaristic welfare reform. The purpose of this article is to explain why the Dutch Christian democrats came to adopt such a …
Middle-class interests, redistribution and the postwar success and failure of the solidaristic welfare state
According to the conventional view of over three decades of research on the welfare state, the postwar success of solidaristic welfare reform depended on the left’s ability to ‘tailor’ to middle-class interests or at least ‘synthesize’ working- and middle-class demands. This article offers a different perspective on the dynamics of postwar solidaristic welfare reform. It argues that key middle-class groups such as skilled wage earners often had a…
Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination: Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems
Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have different historical patterns of industrialization, but developed similar patterns of industrial coordination and cooperation. Theories accounting for industrial relations systems (economic structure, power resources, and party/electoral systems) have difficulty accounting for the similarities among these cases. Therefore, we explore the historical depictions of labor appearing in literature to evaluate wh…
Round Table. Implementing the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages in the Low Countries: The case of the Netherlands
Christian Democracy, Labor, and the Postwar Politics of Old-Age Pension Reform
Christian-democratic parties not only constituted the most successful political force in much of Western Europe during most of the twentieth century; their attitudes toward solidaristic welfare reform have arguably also been more diverse than have those of most other major political groupings during this period. Whereas existing studies have mostly attributed this variation to electoral or strategic considerations, this article emphasizes the imp…
Long-Term Strategic Thinking, Cost Considerations, and the Partisan Politics of Ghent
It has long been established that the presence of the so-called “Ghent systems” of unemployment insurance greatly enhances unionization rates. This paper investigates the political determinants of the choice for and against the introduction and continuation of these systems. Based on a diachronic analysis of three paradigmatic cases, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Sweden, and two shadow cases, Germany and Britain, it shows that all major actors we…
Shared Jobs, Shared Trajectories? Employer Groups and the Regulation of Part-time Work in Germany and the Netherlands
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Why Labor (Partially) Relinquished Its Institutional Resources in Belgium and the Netherlands
Scholars have long recognized the importance of so-called 'Ghent' systems of unemployment insurance for working-class strength and therefore national capitalist development. While only three European countries currently maintain 'pure' Ghent systems, nearly a dozen did so during the first half of the last century. This article investigates the discontinuation of these systems in two paradigmatic cases, Belgium and the Netherlands. By focusing on …
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