States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies

Preface Introduction 3 1 Knowledge about What? Policy Intellectuals and the New Liberalism 17 2 Social Knowledge, Social Risk, and the Politics of Industrial Accidents in Germany and France 48 3 Social Science and the Building of the Early Welfare State: Toward a Comparison of Statist and Non-Statist Western Societies 90 4 The Verein fur Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge 117 5 Progressive Reformers, Unemployment, and the Transformation of Social Inquiry in Britain and the United States, 1880s-1920s 163 6 Social Knowledge and the Generation of Child Welfare Policy in the United States and Canada 201 7 International Modeling, States, and Statistics: Scandinavians Social Security Solutions in the 1890s 233 8 Social Knowledge and the State in the Industrial Relations of Japan (1882-1940) and Great Britain (1870-1914) 264 Conclusion 296 Notes on the Contributors 313 Index 317Rueschemeyer, Dietrich is the author of 'States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies' with ISBN 9780691001128 and ISBN 069100112X.