Divide, provide, and rule : an integrative history of poverty policy, social policy, and social reform in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy / by Susan Zimmermann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmermann, Susan.

Language:

English

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Hungary--History--19th century.

Public welfare.

Poverty--Government policy--Hungary--History--19th century.

Poverty.

Social conditions.

Social policy.

Poverty--Government policy.

History.

Hungary--Social policy.

Hungary.

Hungary--Social conditions--19th century.

Hungary--Economic conditions--19th century.

Economic conditions.

Hungary--History--1867-1918.

Physical Description:

xxii, 171 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Susan Zimmermann fulfills her promise of an "integrative" history splendidly. Her book weaves together the different policy areas of assistance to the poor, social reform and social insurance; it masterfully considers the full scope of civic, charitable and public actors and programs. Finally, and perhaps most innovatively, the author places Hungary before 1914 resolutely on the European map of welfare state development, and thus sets the stage for future comparative and transnational history.

The study-unlike most narratives-offers an abundance of innovative, theoretically grounded interpretations. It examines the history of Austro-Hungarian welfare policy from the point of view (among others) of group-specific differences, notably those between urban and rural environments, between the sexes, and between ethnicities. This is a study that contributes significantly to the development of new patterns of interpretation in this area.

Drawing on an extensive range of documents, Susan Zimmermann reconstructs the unique path that fin-de-siecle Hungary took in slowly becoming a welfare state. It was in part an adaptation to the Western model transmitted by the Austrian half of the Dual Monarchy, yet Hungary also produced some distinctive innovations, especially in the fields of agrarian social policy, child protection, and municipal social policy in Budapest. This book helps us to reconsider the main trajectory of Hungary's history.

Divide, Provide, and Rule presents an empirically grounded and theoretically rich study of needs-related policies in Hungary from the revolution of 1848 to the beginning of the Great War. The narrative is highly informative and integrates historical subdisciplines that thus far have often existed "together apart": labor history, legal history, the history of social statistics, gender history, and political history. This is an important work. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Introduction l

II Poverty Policy 7

II.1 Traditions and Ways of Private and Public Poor Relief in the Context of Limited Civic Self-development (from 1848 to the early 1860s) 7

II.2 Legal Foundations of Poverty Policy in Flux (from the 1860s to 1914) 11

II.3 The Development and Practice of Poverty Policy (from the 1860s to 1914) 20

II.3.1 The two sides of poverty policy: general trends 20

II.3.2 The practice of poor relief as provision 32

II.3.3 The practice of poverty policy as the suppression of poverty 39

III Social Reform and State Intervention (from 1898 to 1914) 47

III.1 Child Protection 48

III.2 Housing Policy 56

III.3 Unemployment and Labor Market Policy 64

IV State Social Policy 69

IV.1 Labor Protection (from 1848 to 1914) 69

IV.1.1 Protection in industry and trade as differentiated according to the character of the work 72

IV.1.2 Protection for children, juveniles and women as groups defined according to their personal characteristics 79

IV.1.3 Labor protection for non-industrial workers 88

IV.2 Social Insurance and Workplace-related Social Policy (from the 1880s to 1914) 90

IV.2.1 Sectors and types of health and accident insurance: origins, development and interests 91

IV.2.2 Institution and policy 96

IV.2.3 Coverage, boundaries, dissociations and relations: social insurance and the formation and differentiation of working and living conditions 116

Coverage: overview and comparison of long-term trends 116

Compulsory insurance of workers and differentiation of commercial labour relations 122

Compulsory insurance of male and female workers 133

Compulsory insurance of workers in agriculture 137

Social insurance and welfare 143

V Conclusion 147.

Notes:

"English translation c2011 by John Harbord"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786155053191

6155053197

OCLC:

727704820