Regulated lives : life insurance and British society, 1800-1914 / / Timothy Alborn

• Autore: Alborn Timothy L. <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Buffalo, [New York] ; ; Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (452 p.)
• Disciplina: 368.32/0094109034
• Soggetto topico: Life insurance - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Life insurance - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Social conditions 19th century; Great Britain Civilization 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Insuring Britain -- 2. Regulated Insurance Offices -- 3. Doing Business -- 4. Death and the Actuary -- 5. Death and the Salesman -- 6. Consuming Interest -- 7. Little Piles of Savings -- 8. Victorian Gatekeeping -- 9. Detecting Deviance -- 10. Dealing with Deviance -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Life Insurance Offices Doing Business in Great Britain, 1800-1914 -- Appendix 2. Occupations of Insurance Agents -- Appendix 3. Life Insurance Offices' Investments, 1871-1910 -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Regulated Lives explores the British life insurance industry's changing assessments of the values and risks of human life between 1800 and 1914. Timothy Alborn's unique study uses insurance practices to demonstrate how Victorian ideas about the lived experience altered both to accommodate and resist elements of modernity such as statistical thinking, medicalization, and capitalist bureaucracy.The nature of Victorian life insurance companies meant that their customers were both consuming subjects and objectified abstractions. Policyholders were active consumers of a product as well as passive objects which were evaluated for 'risk' in the objective and homogenizing terms determined by the industry. By examining how salesmen, actuaries, and doctors utilized their differing conceptions of what the various aspects of people's lives meant, Regulated Lives suggests that the very complexity of modern commercial and social institutions produces space where individuality can flourish.
• Titolo autorizzato: Regulated lives
• ISBN: 1-4426-9734-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458362303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II