Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Public Relief of the Poor: 1. The national framework; 2. The Urban Poor Law; Part II. The State and Industrial Injury: 3. Factory legislation to 1878; 4. German accident insurance; 5. British workmen's compensation; 6. Factory legislation to 1914; Part III. Sickness, Invalidity, and Old Age: 7. The friendly societies of England and Wales; 8. From Prussian Hilfskassen to German Krankenkassen; 9. Cash benefits, contribution and coverage in the Friendly Society Era; 10. German invalidity and old age insurance; 11. British old age pensions; 12. National health insurance for Britain; 13. Medical provision in Britain and Germany; 14. Contributions and benefits in the National Insurance era; 15. White-collar insurance; Part IV. Unemployment: 16. Unemployment policies in Britain; 17. Unemployment policies in Germany; Conclusion; Epilogue.

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This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850–1914).

About the Author

E. P. Hennock is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Liverpool. He has written Fit and Proper Persons: Ideal and Reality in Nineteenth Century Urban Government (1968), and British Social Reform and German Precedents: The Case of Social Insurance, 1880–1914 (1987).

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