The Origins of the Welfare State - Polish Social Policy in the Period 1918-1939

The book focuses on the Polish social policy, its contextual (historical, organisational, conceptual, financial) conditionings, the institutions it fitted in, and primarily on the practical activities, undertaken by the state and other entities with regard to its individual domains. The time span covered by the analysis is the period of 1918-1939. The scope of the research is based on the ways the social policy in the interwar period was conceptualised. It covers labour and employment issues (labour legislation, combatting unemployment, migration policy), social insurance (retirement pension, work injury, sickness insurance), social welfare (support for the poor, welfare for mothers, children, adults and the disabled, problems of social pathologies) and health care system.

List of contents

Polish social policy - interwar period - labour law - employment policy - social insurance - social welfare - health care system - conceptual and financial conditioning - labour protection problem areas - The development of social insurance system - employment policy - Public Health Care

About the author

Pawe¿ Grata is Professor in the University of Rzeszow and Head of the Section of Economic and Social History. He is also Chairman of the Polish Association of Economic History. His scientific interests include economic history, social history, social policy, economic policy and regional history.

Product details

• Authors: Pawe¿ Grata, Pawel Grata
• Assisted by: Anna Wolff-Poweska (Editor), Edyta Wi¿c¿awska (Translation), Edyta Wieclawska (Translation)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9783631856284
• ISBN: 978-3-631-85628-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 19 mm x 215 mm
• Weight: 344 g
• Illustrations: 4 Abb.
• Series: Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik. Studies in History, Memory and Politics; Studies in History, Memory and Politics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History