A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Muse Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

"Janet Horne's book provides not only an excellent history of the MusÉe Social but also an important new perspective on the activities of turn-of-the-twentieth-century reform networks. It demonstrates that the MusÉe Social constituted a unique French institution, free from Jacobin, centralizing pressures,where experts, intellectuals, and administrators could interact among themselves. Her work reveals the misunderstood but essential role played by independent reformers in the modernization of France."-Pierre Rosanvallon, directeur d'Études À l'Ecole des hautes Études en sciences socialesJanet R. Horne is the author of 'A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Muse Social and the Rise of the Welfare State', published 2002 under ISBN 9780822327820 and ISBN 0822327821.