Moses The First Modern Risk

Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-108-63103-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Reihe: Studies in Legal History

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 caused 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moses, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Arbeitsrecht Arbeitsschutz- und Arbeitssicherheitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Moses, Julia
Julia Moses is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield and Marie Curie Fellow in Sociology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany. Co-founder and co-chair of the Risk, Policy and Law Research Group at Sheffield's Centre for Medical Humanities, her previous publications include The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development (with Michael Lobban; Cambridge, 2012) and Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories (2017).