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Creating the welfare state in France, 1880-1940 /

Smith shows that France's most important social legislation to date - providing medical insurance, maternity benefits, modest pensions, and disability benefits to millions of people - was passed in 1928 (and amended and put into practice in 1930). This law, misrepresented in textbooks as being...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Timothy B. (Timothy Beresford)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The French social service landscape prior to World War I : localism vs. centralization
  • The crucible of war
  • Building mini-welfare states, 1920-1940
  • The decline of traditional charitable medicine, the emergence of limited national health insurance
  • Unemployment policy, 1914-1940 : from the local to the national.