Agents of reform : child labor and the origins of the welfare state / Elisabeth Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Elisabeth (Professor of Sociology), author.

Series:

Princeton studies in global and comparative sociology.

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton studies in global and comparative sociology

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--History--19th century.

Welfare state.

Child labor--History--19th century.

Child labor.

Child labor--Law and legislation--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late 19th-century labour movement and to policymakers' efforts to appeal to working-class voters. But in this book, Elisabeth Anderson shows that the regulatory welfare state began a half century earlier, in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child labour laws. 'Agents of Reform' tells the story of how middle-class and elite reformers in Europe and the United States defined child labour as a threat to social order, and took the lead in bringing regulatory welfare into being. They built alliances to maneuver around powerful political blocks and instituted pathbreaking new employment protections. Later in the century, now with the help of organised labour, they created factory inspectorates to strengthen and routinise the state's capacity to intervene in industrial working conditions.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Part I

Introduction to Part I

2. Securing the Social Order: The Politics of Child Labor Regulation in Prussia

3. A Tale of Two Reformers: Success in France, Failure in Belgium

4. Defending Democracy: Cultural Consensus and Child Labor Reform in Massachusetts

Conclusion to Part I

Part II

Introduction to Part II

5. Restoring Solidarity and Domesticity: Conciliatory Factory Inspection in Imperial Germany

6. Appeasing Labor, Protecting Capital: Conciliatory Factory Inspection in Massachusetts

7. Social Justice Feminism and Labor Law Enforcement in Illinois

Conclusion to Part II

8. Conclusion

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2022).

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691220918

0691220913

OCLC:

1272996301