Description
Book SynopsisBrings together the analysis of older, mostly local welfare policies (including their legal framings and their change over time) 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 for instance protective policies at the work place, housing policy, child protection, and prostitution policies. Making innovative use of legal, quantitative, and other material, the author describes how policies of inclusion into and exclusion from access to social insurance coverage shaped social relations within and beyond the world of work. The study 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 and biased the conceptual apparatus of research into the history of welfare and social policies.
Trade Review"Drawing on an extensive base of documents, Zimmermann reconstructs the special road of how fin-de-siecle Hungary headed for slowly becoming a welfare-state. It was in part an adaptation to the Western model transmitted by Austrian part of the dual Monarchy. The transformation also produced some distinctive innovations, examplified especially by the Budapest municipal social policy. The book will spark interest in the field of the European comparative history of social policy." GABOR GYANI, Professor at Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Table of ContentsPreface 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 Tables Illustrations
