The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 18501914 (Paperback)

E.P. Hennock

ISBN 10: 0521597706 / ISBN 13: 9780521597708

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007

Paperback. This book is a comparative study of the origin of the welfare state in England and Germany, from 1850 to 1914. It presents original conclusions about the differences between British and German approaches. Peter Hennock analyses policies on social security and the public provision of medical care, dealing with public poor relief, industrial injury, with sickness, invalidity and old age, and with unemployment. In each case policies in Britain and in the German Empire are compared for their actual provisions, their consequences and the politics that produced them. He demonstrates that national insurance has played a larger role in Germany than in Britain from the beginning, as it still does today, and that decisions taken before 1914 are crucial to the long-term differences between the welfare state in the two countries. The book will appeal to students and scholars of British and European political history, social history and social policy. This book is a comparative study of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany from 1850 to 1914. Peter Hennock analyses policies on social security and the public provision of medical care, dealing with public poor relief, industrial injury, with sickness, invalidity and old age, and with unemployment. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780521597708

Inhaltsangabe:

This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850–1914).

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: E. P. Hennock is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Liverpool. He has written Fit and Proper Persons: Ideal and Reality in Nineteenth Century Urban Government (1968), and British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance, 1880-1914 (1987).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Origin of the Welfare State in England ...
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: new