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British Social Reform and German Precedents
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Compulsory social insurance had been pioneered by Germany in the 1880s to deal with the consequences of industrial injury, sickness, infirmity and old age for the working class. What interest did policy-makers in Britain take in this German innovation? Why did they initially consider it irrelevant? Why and to what extent did attitudes change? How could a German institution be adapted to British circumstances? These are the questions with which Dr Hennock is concerned in his study of British social reform.
He examines British policy on compensation for industrial accidents, old age pensions and national insurance, and in a wide-ranging introduction compares this with developments in such other spheres as technical education and town planning in which German precedents had also challenged accepted ways. British Social Reform and German Precedents deliberately raises questions about innovation and resistance to innovation from abroad which are still relevant as Britain seeks to adapt to membership of the European Economic Community.
Product details
Number of Pages:
252
Release Date:
1987-10-01
Publication Date:
1987-09-03
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0198201273
ISBN13:
9780198201274
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Weight:
491 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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