First Modern Risk - Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States

Informationen zum Autor Julia Moses is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, co-founder and co-chair of the Risk, Policy and Law Research Group at Sheffield's Centre for Medical Humanities, and currently Marie Curie Fellow in Sociology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Her previous publications include The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development (with Michael Lobban; 2012) and Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories (2017). Klappentext Examines Europe's first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which had major implications for state-society relations. Zusammenfassung Examines Europe's first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century! which saw regulation focused on workplace accidents and had major implications for state-society relations. Ideal for scholars in history and law with an interest in the welfare state! labor regulation! and occupational health. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Accidents, freedom and modernity in the nineteenth century; 2. Occupational risk, work and the nation state; 3. Spreading risk, forging solidarity; 4. Taking risks and dismissing fate; 5. Workers, citizens and the state; 6. Risk societies as 'people's communities'; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Moses, Julia (University of Sheffield) Moses, MOSES JULIA
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781108426503
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42650-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Studies in Legal History; Studies in Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Legal History, Social and cultural history, comparative law, Occupational health and safety law, working time law, Occupational health & safety law