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States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies

States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies

Rueschemeyer, Dietrich
Skocpol, Theda

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5196

General SociologyInternational RelationsSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0691654077
ISBN13: 9780691654072
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Mar 21 2017
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

From the 1850s to the 1920s, laws regulating the industrial labor process, pensions for the elderly, unemployment insurance, and measures to educate and ensure the welfare of children were enacted in many industrializing capitalist nations. This same period saw the development of modern social sciences. The eight essays collected here examine the reciprocal influence of social policy and academic research in comparative context, ranging across policy areas and encompassing developments in Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Scandinavia, and Japan. Introduced by the editors, the essays include Part I on the emergence of modern social knowledge by Ira Katznelson, Anson Rabinbach, and Björn Wittrock and Peter Wagner; Part II on reformist social scientists and public policymaking by Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Ronan Van Rossem, Libby Schweber, and John R. Sutton; Part III on state managers and the uses of social knowledge by Stein Kuhnle and Sheldon Garon, and a conclusion by Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol.

Originally published in 1995.

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