Vai al contenuto principale della pagina
Autore: |
Smith Timothy B (Timothy Beresford)
![]() |
Titolo: |
Creating the welfare state in France, 1880-1940 [[electronic resource] /] / Timothy B. Smith
![]() |
Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
Disciplina: | 361.6/5/094409041 |
Soggetto topico: | Social security - France - History |
Public welfare - France - History | |
Health insurance - France - History - 20th century | |
Unemployment - Government policy - France - History - 20th century | |
Sécurité sociale - France - Histoire | |
Aide sociale - France - Histoire | |
Assurance-maladie - France - Histoire - 20e siècle | |
Chômage - Politique gouvernementale - France - Histoire - 20e siècle | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-236) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- The French social service landscape prior to World War I : localism vs. centralization -- The crucible of war -- Building mini-welfare states, 1920-1940 -- The decline of traditional charitable medicine, the emergence of limited national health insurance -- Unemployment policy, 1914-1940 : from the local to the national. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Smith shows that France's most important social legislation to date - providing medical insurance, maternity benefits, modest pensions, and disability benefits to millions of people - was passed in 1928 (and amended and put into practice in 1930). This law, misrepresented in textbooks as being an utter failure, covered over 50 percent of the population by 1940. Few other nations could have claimed this sort of social insurance success. As well, by 1937 the centuries-old public assistance residency requirements had been transferred from the local to the departmental (regional) level. France's success in introducing important social reforms may require us to rethink - or at least modify - the common view of interwar France as a time of utter political, economic, and social failure. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Creating the welfare state in France, 1880-1940 ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-86064-X |
9786612860645 | |
0-7735-7043-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781903603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |