| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Social security -- France -- History
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Public welfare -- France -- History
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Health insurance -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Unemployment -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Social Welfare -- history
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History, 19th Century
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History, 20th Century
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National Health Programs -- history
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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Health insurance
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Public welfare
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Social security
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Unemployment -- Government policy
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Sozialstaat
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Wohlfahrtsstaat
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Verzorgingsstaat.
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Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
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France |
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France
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780773570436 |
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0773570438 |
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9786612860645 |
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6612860642 |
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