Julia Moses

The First Modern Risk

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines Europe's first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which had major implications for state-society relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426503
• ISBN-10: 1108426506
• Artikelnr.: 50439540

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.