Title: Welfare and old age in Europe and North America : the development of social insurance /
Authors: Harris, Bernard, 1961-
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Social Conditions.; Aged; Social Security; Social security Europe History.; Social security North America History.; Older people Europe Social conditions.; Older people North America Social conditions.; Welfare state History; Aged North America.; Social Conditions North America.; North America; Europe; Europe.; North America.
Abstract: "...Essays examine the origins and development of welfare both in Europe and America, and concentrate on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They consider the relationship between the commercial sector and the state, and examine some of the ways in which these organizations continue to contribute to welfare provision ..."--P. [4] of Cover.
Contents: Coalminers, accidents and insurance in the late nineteenth-century England / John Benson -- The costs and benefits of size in a mutual insurance system : the German miners' -- Knappschaften, 1854-1923 / Timothy W. Guinnane, Tobias A. Jopp and Jochen Streb -- A new welfare system : friendly societies in the Eastern Lombardy from 1860 to 1914 / Paulo Tedeschi -- Economic growth and demand for health coverage in Spain : the role of friendly societies (1870-1942) / Margarita Vilar Rodríguez and Jerónima Pons Pons -- Sickness insurance and welfare reform in England and Wales, 1870-1914 / Bernard Harris ... [et al.] -- From sickness to death : revisiting the financial viability of the English friendly societies, 1875-1908 / Nicholas Broten -- America's rejection of government health insurance in the Progressive era : implications for understanding the determinants and achievements of public insurance of health risks / J. C. Herbert Emery -- Medical assistance provided by La Conciliación, a Pamplona mutual assistance association (1902-84) / Pilar León-Sanz -- In it for the money? : insurers, sickness funds, and the dominance of not-for-profit insurance in the Netherlands / R. A. A. Vonk -- Belgian mutual health insurance and the nation state / D. Rigter