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Author Zimmermann, Susan

Title Divide, provide, and rule : an integrative history of poverty policy, social policy, and social reform in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy / Susan Zimmermann
Published Buapest ; New York : Central European University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 171 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; I. Introduction; II. Poverty Policy; II. 1. Traditions and Ways of Private and Public Poor Relief in the Context of Limited Civic Self-development (from 1848 to the early 1860s); II. 2. Legal Foundations of Poverty Policy in Flux (from the 1860s to 1914); II. 3. The Development and Practice of Poverty Policy (from the 1860s to 1914); II. 3.1. The two sides of poverty policy: general trends; II. 3.2. The practice of poor relief as provision
II. 3.3. The practice of poverty policy as the suppression ofpovertyIII. Social Reform and State Intervention (from1898 to 1914); III. 1. Child Protection; III. 2. Housing Policy; III. 3. Unemployment and Labor Market Policy; IV. State Social Policy; IV. 1. Labor Protection (from 1848 to 1914); IV. 1.1. Protection in industry and trade as differentiated according to the character of the work; IV. 1.2. Protection for children, juveniles and women as groups defined according to their personal characteristics; IV. 1.3. Labor protection for non-industrial workers
IV. 2. Social Insurance and Workplace-related Social Policy (from the 1880s to 1914)IV. 2.1. Sectors and types of health and accident insurance: origins, development and interests; IV. 2.2. Institution and policy; IV. 2.3. Coverage, boundaries, dissociations and relations: social insurance and the formation and differentiation of working and living conditions; Coverage: overview and comparison of long-term trends; Compulsory insurance of workers and differentiation of commercial labour relations; Compulsory insurance of male and female workers; Compulsory insurance of workers in agriculture
Social insurance and welfareV. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Illustrations
Summary A concise and comprehensive account of the transformation of social policy from traditional poor relief towards social insurance systems in a European state before World War One. Brings together the analysis of older, mostly local welfare policies with the history of social policy developed by the state and operated at a national level. Explores also the interaction of various layers of and actors in welfare policy, i.e. of poor relief, social reform policies and the unfolding welfare state over time, including often neglected elements of these policies such as e.g. protective policies at the work place, housing policy, child protection, and prostitution policies
Analysis Child protection, Economic conditions, Labor history, Public welfare, Social policy, Women
Notes "English translation ©2011, John Harbord."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Public welfare -- Hungary -- History -- 19th century
Poverty -- Government policy -- Hungary -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Economic history
Poverty -- Government policy
Public welfare
Social conditions
Social policy
SUBJECT Hungary -- Social policy
Hungary -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Hungary -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063033
Hungary -- History -- 1867-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85063062
Subject Hungary
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011037329
ISBN 9786155053207
6155053200
6155053197
9786155053191
1283333570
9781283333573
9786613333575
6613333573