(Source: Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge
University Press has just published a book on 19th century workplace
accidents and their role in the early development of the social state.
ABOUT THE BOOK
During the late
nineteenth century, many countries across Europe adopted national legislation
that required employers to compensate workers injured or killed in accidents at
work. These laws suggested that the risk of accidents was inherent to work and
not due to individual negligence. By focusing on Britain, Germany, and Italy
during this time, Julia Moses demonstrates how these laws reflected a major
transformation in thinking about the nature of individual responsibility and
social risk. The First Modern Risk illuminates the implications of this
conceptual revolution for the role of the state in managing problems of
everyday life, transforming understandings about both the obligations and
rights of individuals. Drawing on a wide array of disciplines including law,
history, and politics, Moses offers a fascinating transnational view of a
pivotal moment in the evolution of the welfare state.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julia Moses,
University of Sheffield
Julia Moses is Senior Lecturer
in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, co-founder and co-chair of
the Risk, Policy and Law Research Group at Sheffield Centre for Medical
Humanities, and currently Marie Curie Fellow in Sociology at the
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Her previous publications include
The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development (with Michael Lobban; 2012) and
Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories (2017).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Accidents,
freedom and modernity in the nineteenth century
2. Occupational
risk, work and the nation state
3. Spreading
risk, forging solidarity
4. Taking risks
and dismissing fate
5. Workers,
citizens and the state
6. Risk
societies as 'people's communities'
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.
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the publisher
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