States, social knowledge, and the origins of modern social policies
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States, social knowledge, and the origins of modern social policies
(Princeton paperbacks)
Princeton University Press , Russell Sage Foundation, c1996
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  Niigata
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  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
From the 1850s to the 1920s, laws regulating the industrial labour process, pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and measures to educate and ensure the welfare of children were enacted in many industrializing capitalist nations. This same period saw the development of modern social sciences. This collection of essays examines the reciprocal influence of social policy and academic research in comparative context, ranging across policy areas and encompassing developments in Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia and Japan.
Table of Contents
Preface 1 Knowledge about What? Policy Intellectuals and the New Liberalism 2 Social Knowledge, Social Risk, and the Politics of Industrial Accidents in Germany and France 3 Social Science and the Building of the Early Welfare State: Toward a Comparison of Statist and Non-Statist Western Societies 4 The Verein fur Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge 5 Progressive Reformers, Unemployment, and the Transformation of Social Inquiry in Britain and the United States, 1880s-1920s 6 Social Knowledge and the Generation of Child Welfare Policy in the United States and Canada 7 International Modeling, States, and Statistics: Scandinavians Social Security Solutions in the 1890s 8 Social Knowledge and the State in the Industrial Relations of Japan (1882-1940) and Great Britain (1870-1914) Conclusion Notes on the Contributors Index
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