States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies /

States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies / / ed. by Theda Skocpol, Dietrich Rueschemeyer.

From the 1850s to the 1920s, laws regulating the industrial labor 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 scien...

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MitwirkendeR:
Garon, Sheldon,
Katznelson, Ira,
Kocpol, Theda,
Kuhnle, Stein,
Rabinbach, Anson,
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich,
Schweber, Libby,
Skocpol, Theda,
Sutton, John R.,
Van Rossem, Ronan,
Wagner, Peter,
Wittrock, Björn,
HerausgeberIn:
Rueschemeyer, Dietrich,
Skocpol, Theda,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1995
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5196
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Physical Description:1 online resource (340 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Emergence of Modern Social Knowledge
  • 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
  • Part II. Reformist Social Scientists and Public Policymaking
  • 4. The Verein für 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
  • Part III. State Managers and the Uses of Social Knowledge
  • 7. International Modeling, States, and Statistics: Scandinavian 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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