Divide, Provide and Rule
A concise and comprehensive account of the transformation of social policy from traditional poor relief towards social insurance systems in a European state before World War One.
Brings together the analysis of older, mostly local welfare policies with the history of social policy developed by the state and operated at a national level. Explores also the interaction of various layers of and actors in welfare policy, i.e. of poor relief, social reform policies and the unfolding welfare state over time, including often neglected elements of these policies such as e.g. protective policies at the work place, housing policy, child protection, and prostitution policies.
Demonstrates how definitions of what constituted need have served historically to produce divergent visions and treatment of male and female poverty, and how these historical biases have continued to shape the conceptual apparatus of research into the history of welfare and social policies.
Preface
I. Introduction
II. Poverty Policy
II.1. Traditions and Ways of Private and Public Poor Relief in the Context of Limited Civic Self-development (1848 to the beginning of the 1860’s)
II.2. The Legal Foundations of Poverty Policy in Flux (1860’s to 1914)
II.3. The Development and Practice of Poverty Policy (1860’s to 1914)
II.3.1. The Two Sides of Poverty Policy: General Trends
II.3.2. The Practice of Poor Relief as Provision
II.3.3. The Practice of Poverty Policy as the Suppression of Poverty
III. Social Reform and State Intervention (1898 to 1914)
III.1. Child Protection
III.2. Housing Policy
III.3. Unemployment and Labor Market Policy
IV. State Social Policy
IV.1. Labor Protection (1848 to 1914)
IV.1.1. Protection in Industry and Trade as differentiated according to the character of the work
IV.1.2. Protection for Children, Juveniles and Women as groups defined according to their personal characteristics
IV.1.3. Labor Protection for Non-Industrial Workers
IV.2. Social Insurance and Workplace-related Social Policy (1880s to 1914)
IV.2.1. Sectors and Types of Health and Accident Insurance: Origins, Development and Interests
IV.2.2. Institution and Policy
IV.2.3. Coverage, Boundaries, Dissociations and Relations: Social Insurance and the Formation and Differentiation of Working and Living Conditions
Coverage: Overview and Comparison of Long-term Trends
Compulsory Insurance of Workers and Differentiation of Commercial Labour Relations
Compulsory Insurance of Male and Female Workers
Compulsory Insurance of Workers in Agriculture
Social Insurance and Welfare
V. Conclusion
Bibliography
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Illustrations