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Agents of Reform : Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State / Elisabeth Anderson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative SociologyPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) : 22 b/w illus. 14 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780691220918
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 361.6509 23
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  • JC479 .A54 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
Summary: A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happenThe beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to working-class voters. But in Agents of Reform, Elisabeth Anderson shows that the regulatory welfare state began a half century earlier, in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child labor laws.Agents of Reform tells the story of how middle-class and elite reformers in Europe and the United States defined child labor 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 organized labor, they created factory inspectorates to strengthen and routinize the state’s capacity to intervene in industrial working conditions.Agents of Reform compares seven in-depth case studies of key policy episodes in Germany, France, Belgium, Massachusetts, and Illinois. Foregrounding the agency of individual reformers, it challenges existing explanations of welfare state development and advances a new pragmatist field theory of institutional change. In doing so, it moves beyond standard narratives of interests and institutions toward an integrated understanding of how these interact with political actors’ ideas and coalition-building strategies.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A NOTE ON THE TYPE

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A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happenThe beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to working-class voters. But in Agents of Reform, Elisabeth Anderson shows that the regulatory welfare state began a half century earlier, in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child labor laws.Agents of Reform tells the story of how middle-class and elite reformers in Europe and the United States defined child labor 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 organized labor, they created factory inspectorates to strengthen and routinize the state’s capacity to intervene in industrial working conditions.Agents of Reform compares seven in-depth case studies of key policy episodes in Germany, France, Belgium, Massachusetts, and Illinois. Foregrounding the agency of individual reformers, it challenges existing explanations of welfare state development and advances a new pragmatist field theory of institutional change. In doing so, it moves beyond standard narratives of interests and institutions toward an integrated understanding of how these interact with political actors’ ideas and coalition-building strategies.

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In English.

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