Business and Social Policy: A Case Study of the Adoption of Workers’ Compensation in Israel

Gal, John

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“…Additional problems were the scope of the ordinance: it did not apply to all workers, and it quoted nominal levels of compensation that, due to rises in the cost of living, became insufficient. Allocation of some of the funds as profit for the insurance companies was also mentioned as a reason for the lower compensation payments (Gal 2005).…”

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Admon-Rick

2013

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Work injury compensation and pensions are often determined according to medical disability rating scales attributing a percentage to each impaired body part or function. Incorporated into central medical–administrative networks of committees and examinations, these produce disability as a calculable space. This article examines the specific case of the Israeli National Insurance regulations regarding work injuries of 1956 and analyzes the shifted order they set. Looking at this system in the specific historical context of transition from the British Mandate workmen’s compensation system to the “disability percentages” system, provides insight into the process of structuring and stabilizing durable numerical forms and the production of centralized government. Drawing on conceptualizations regarding the sociotechnical role of classification systems, I contend that through encoding and calculating classifications of disability, heterogeneity is eliminated and an ordering based on physiology is “black boxed,” illustrating the importance of technoscientific formations in structuring the “medical model of disability.”

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Admon-Rick

2013

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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“…Following a long political struggle within Mapai (primarily between state officials and the Histadrut leadership), it was decided that the Histadrut sick fund would continue to function and, in practice, serve as the primary source of health services in the new state (Shvartz, 2002). By contrast, the former work injury system was abolished and nationalized, thereby effectively ending any trade union involvement in this field (Gal, 2005). On the issue of old-age benefits and the role of the Histadrut pension and provident funds, the position adopted by Mapai and the Histadrut was that the Histadrut workplace-based provident or pension funds should continue to function freely alongside a state-run social insurance system.…”

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Labor Welfare in Israel

Gal

Bargal

2009

Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health

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“…Helman (2011) underscored the pivotal role of ideological discourses around gender roles (see also Ajzenstadt and Gal 2001; Herbst and Benjamin 2012). Other critical scholars noted the role of actors such as the middle class and bureaucrats (Gal 1998), business firms (Gal 2005), and the state's economic interests (Koreh 2017). Finally, various scholars sought to explain the recent restructuring of the welfare state by addressing the rise of the neo-liberal project (Maron and Shalev 2017), the declining power of the Labor Movement and the growing emphasis on multi-culturalism and identity politics (Doron 2007).…”

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Religion and the Israeli Welfare State: The Case of Burial Services

Holler

2020

Politics and Religion

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In recent years, the welfare state literature has been witnessing a “religious turn,” (re)reminding us the pivotal role of religion in shaping the modern welfare state. Notwithstanding its theoretical importance, this turn has been largely confined to European, North American, and antipodean settings. By drawing upon the historical case of Israeli burial services, this study seeks to make a modest step in closing this theoretical and empirical gap. Specifically, its findings point to the historical role of the Judaism in establishing universal burial services, funded by the state and operated almost exclusively by religious burial societies. Moreover, this policy legacy, which already had its roots in the British Mandate rule, is still at work, even in an era of “permanent austerity.” These findings problematize mainstream historical observations, which view the Israeli welfare state as a secular project, by suggesting a more nuanced and progressive role for Judaism in its history.

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Business and Social Policy: A Case Study of the Adoption of Workers’ Compensation in Israel

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