Social Laboratory for Modern France The Musee Social & 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 socialesHorne, Janet R. is the author of 'Social Laboratory for Modern France The Musee Social & the Rise of the Welfare State' with ISBN 9780822327929 and ISBN 0822327929.