From Mutual Aid To The Welfare State

Author : David T. Beito
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807860557

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From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State by David T. Beito Pdf

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches. Despite the stereotypical image of the lodge as the exclusive domain of white men, fraternalism cut across race, class, and gender lines to include women, African Americans, and immigrants. Exploring the history and impact of fraternal societies in the United States, David Beito uncovers the vital importance they had in the social and fiscal lives of millions of American families. Much more than a means of addressing deep-seated cultural, psychological, and gender needs, fraternal societies gave Americans a way to provide themselves with social-welfare services that would otherwise have been inaccessible, Beito argues. In addition to creating vast social and mutual aid networks among the poor and in the working class, they made affordable life and health insurance available to their members and established hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the elderly. Fraternal societies continued their commitment to mutual aid even into the early years of the Great Depression, Beito says, but changing cultural attitudes and the expanding welfare state eventually propelled their decline.

Author : A. Margolis,University of Edinburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:53532451

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Mutual Aid in the Welfare State by A. Margolis,University of Edinburgh Pdf

Author : David G. Green,Lawrence G. Cromwell
Publisher : Sydney ; Boston : G. Allen & Unwin
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Fraternal organizations
ISBN : 0868616648

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Mutual Aid Or Welfare State by David G. Green,Lawrence G. Cromwell Pdf

Author : Paul Spicker
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446266113

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The Welfare State by Paul Spicker Pdf

A major orginal work of social theory, this book presents a distinctive and tightly argued theoretical model for understanding the basis of welfare in society. The author develops a theory of welfare based on a series of basic propositions: that people live in society and have obligations to each other; that welfare is obtained and maintained through social action; and that the welfare state is a means of promoting and maintaining welfare in society. Each of these propositions is examined and developed to suggest a clear way of understanding the foundations of social welfare. The book make a lively and informative contribution to debates in social policy, as well as moral philosophy, political theory and social theory.

Author : François Ewald
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781478009214

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The Birth of Solidarity by François Ewald Pdf

François Ewald's landmark The Birth of Solidarity—first published in French in 1986, revised in 1996, with the revised edition appearing here in English for the first time—is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state. Theorizing the origins of social insurance, Ewald shows how the growing problem of industrial accidents in France throughout the nineteenth century tested the limits of classical liberalism and its notions of individual responsibility. As workers and capitalists confronted each other over the problem of workplace accidents, they transformed the older practice of commercial insurance into an instrument of state intervention, thereby creating an entirely new conception of law, the state, and social solidarity. What emerged was a new system of social insurance guaranteed by the state. The Birth of Solidarity is a classic work of social and political theory that will appeal to all those interested in labor power, the making and dismantling of the welfare state, and Foucauldian notions of governmentality, security, risk, and the limits of liberalism.

Author : Anne Marie Baylouny
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253354723

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Privatizing Welfare in the Middle East by Anne Marie Baylouny Pdf

Examines the effects of neoliberal economic reforms on middle classes in the Middle East. Based on fieldwork and interviews with members, non-members, and policymakers, this title provides fresh insights into democratization, liberalization, and civil society.

Author : Jennifer Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015011897975

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The Welfare State by Jennifer Harris Pdf

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781455543687

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Had I Known by Barbara Ehrenreich Pdf

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, political activist, and "veteran muckraker" Barbara Ehrenreich (The New Yorker). A self-proclaimed "myth buster by trade," Barbara Ehrenreich has covered an extensive range of topics as a journalist and political activist, and is unafraid to dive into intellectual waters that others deem too murky. Now, Had I Known gathers the articles and excerpts from a long-ranging career that most highlight Ehrenreich's brilliance, social consciousness, and wry wit. From Ehrenreich's award-winning article "Welcome to Cancerland," published shortly after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, to her groundbreaking undercover investigative journalism in Nickel and Dimed, to her exploration of death and mortality in the New York Times bestseller, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich has been writing radical, thought-provoking, and worldview-altering pieces for over four decades. Her reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, among others, while her essays, op-eds and feature articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and many more. Had I Known pulls from the vast and varied collection of one of our country's most incisive thinkers to create one must-have volume.

Author : David G. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : 1903386810

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Before Beveridge by David G. Green Pdf

With welfare reform high on the political agenda, politicians and policy-makers have begun to show an interest in how welfare services were delivered in the years before the post-war Beveridgean welfare state. Simultaneously, historians have become more interested in the operation of what is termed the 'mixed economy of welfare' in the past.

Author : Nicholas Deakin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000560459

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Origins Welfare State V7 by Nicholas Deakin Pdf

First published in 2004. Consisting of both shorter pieces and reprints of entire books, this set restores to circulation a number of key texts from the debate about the future of welfare that took place in Britain following the depression. The collection covers the following areas: The period during which the country felt the full impact of the world depression. A number of solutions were put forward during this time to address the arising issues - in particular the consequences of mass unemployment. The approaches ranged from orthodox Marxism to modified conservatism and "middle opinion" A key feature of the debate was the concept of planning as a device to enable governments to cope with economic and social problems. * A range of different ideas were widely canvassed during the war years. It was considered that successful conduct of war could then be applied to the problems of peace. This set resurrects certain proposals, influential in the climate of the times, which have subsequently dropped out of circulation Early assessments dealing with the implications of Welfare State legislation are also included. Although the implementation of the welfare programme was in effect a bipartisan process it did not take long for doubts to be expressed - some of which were directed at the principles on which the Welfare State was being constructed. Volume 7 includes Voluntary action by William Beveridge.

Author : Janet Regina Horne
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0822327929

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A Social Laboratory for Modern France by Janet Regina Horne Pdf

DIVDocuments the early days of the French welfare state through the Musée Social, an early think tank./div

Author : Tom G. Palmer,Aristides Hatzis,Piercamillo Falasca,David Green,David Beito,Michael Tanner,Johan Norberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1732587396

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After the Welfare State by Tom G. Palmer,Aristides Hatzis,Piercamillo Falasca,David Green,David Beito,Michael Tanner,Johan Norberg Pdf

Author : Tom G. Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : WISC:89117138784

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After the Welfare State by Tom G. Palmer Pdf

"Featuring essays by: David Beiro, Piercamillo Falasca, David Green, Aristides Hatzis, Johan Norberg, Tom G. Palmer, Michael Tanner"--Cover Includes bibliographical references: p. 143-175.

Author : Paul V. Dutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139432962

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Origins of the French Welfare State by Paul V. Dutton Pdf

This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in English, or French, which offers a deeply-researched explanation of how France's welfare state came to be and why the French are so attached to it. The author argues that France simultaneously pursued two different paths toward universal social protection. Family welfare embraced an industrial model in which class distinctions and employer control predominated. By contrast, protection against the risks of illness, disability, maternity, and old age followed a mutual aid model of welfare. The book examines a remarkably broad cast of actors that includes workers' unions, employers, mutual leaders, the parliamentary elite, haut fonctionnaires, doctors, pronatalists, women's organizations - both social Catholic and feminist - and diverse peasant organisations. It also traces foreign influences on French social reform, particularly from Germany's former territories in Alsace-Lorraine and Britain's Beveridge Plan.

Author : Melanie Oppenheimer,Nicholas Deakin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526184016

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Beveridge and voluntary action in Britain and the wider British world by Melanie Oppenheimer,Nicholas Deakin Pdf

The relationship between the state and the voluntary sector has changed significantly since 1948 when Beveridge’s major report, Voluntary Action, was first published. Sixty years later, a group of historians analyse and reassess the impact of Beveridge’s ideas about voluntary action for social advance in this timely volume. Using examples from the UK, Australasia and Canada, this book clearly articulates the importance and significance of Beveridge's ideas on voluntary action within an international context. With the emphasis of governments on the importance of the voluntary or 'third sector' and the development of policies and practices to enhance social capital, build civil society and engage communities, this book will be invaluable for those interested in how the third sector has evolved over time. It will be of interest to historians, social policy researchers, political theorists, economists and educationalists.