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

Preface 1 Knowledge about What? Policy Intellectuals and the New Liberalism 2 Social Knowledge, Social Risk, and the Politics of Industrial Accidents in Germany and France 3 Social Science and the Building of the Early Welfare State: Toward a Comparison of Statist and Non-Statist Western Societies 4 The Verein fur Sozialpolitik and the Fabian Society: A Study in the Sociology of Policy-Relevant Knowledge 5 Progressive Reformers, Unemployment, and the Transformation of Social Inquiry in Britain and the United States, 1880s-1920s 6 Social Knowledge and the Generation of Child Welfare Policy in the United States and Canada 7 International Modeling, States, and Statistics: Scandinavians Social Security Solutions in the 1890s 8 Social Knowledge and the State in the Industrial Relations of Japan (1882-1940) and Great Britain (1870-1914) Conclusion Notes on the Contributors Index