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The origins of the welfare state : women, work, and the French Revolution / Lisa DiCaprio.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DiCaprio, Lisa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social policy.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Women.
- France.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Social aspects.
- France--Social conditions--18th century.
- Social conditions.
- Women--France--History--18th century.
- Women.
- France--Social policy--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 259 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- In May 1790, the French National Assembly created spinning workshops (ateliers de filature) for thousands of unemployed women in Paris. These ateliers disclose new aspects of the process which transformed Old Regime charity intorevolutionary welfare initiatives characterized by secularization, centralization, and entitlements based on citizenship. This study is the first to examine women and the welfare state in its formative period at a time when modern concepts of human rights were elaborated. In
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252030214
- 9780252030215
- OCLC:
- 60664372
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