„Kapitalismus blahobytu“ a „stát blahobytu“. Německé diskuze kapitalismu v perspektivě sociální péče o dělnictvo

of the term, specifically the usage of capitalism as an aid in the analysis of state and industrial
enterprise strategies aiming at the social care of the working class. The text raises the question of
whether a developed theoretical system of entrepreneurial strategies towards the working class
as the discourse of welfare capitalism, for example, in the Anglo-Saxon countries did emerge
in German-language historiographical discourse. Although the German scene worked with an
associated term (Wohlfahrtskapitalismus), its intentions were fundamentally different to those
of its Anglo-Saxon counterpart, due to the extraordinary emphasis on the state, which emerged
as the chief guarantor behind the institutional basis of modernization processes in the economic
and sociological theories of the German historical school. Although the postwar German Ordoliberalism vigorously denied primacy to central administration within the economy, the synergy
between the state and social policy was always present at the theoretical and practical level. In this
context the entrepreneurial class only had limited space to develop generally autonomous social
policy, which was legislatively covered by state authorities in Central Europe.