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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Moses, Julia (University of Sheffield) Moses
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781108443470
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44347-0
• No. of pages: 335
• Series: Studies in Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, comparative law, Occupational health and safety law, working time law, Occupational health & safety law