Divide, Provide and Rule: An Integrative History of Poverty Policy, Social Reform, and Social Policy in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Preface xi I. Introduction 1 II. Poverty Policy 7 II.1. Traditions and Ways of Private and Public Poor Relief in the Context of Limited Civic Self-development (from 1848 to the early 1860s) 7 II.2. Legal Foundations of Poverty Policy in Flux (from the 1860s to 1914) 11 II.3. The Development and Practice of Poverty Policy (from the 1860s to 1914) 20 II.3.1. The two sides of poverty policy: general trends 20 II.3.2. The practice of poor relief as provision 32 II.3.3. The practice of poverty policy as the suppression of poverty 39 III. Social Reform and State Intervention (from 1898 to 1914) 47 III.1. Child Protection 48 III.2. Housing Policy 56 III.3. Unemployment and Labor Market Policy 64 vi Content IV. State Social Policy 69 IV.1. Labor Protection (from 1848 to 1914) 69 IV.1.1. Protection in industry and trade as differentiated according to the character of the work 72 IV.1.2. Protection for children, juveniles and women as groups defined according to their personal characteristics 79 IV.1.3. Labor protection for non-industrial workers 88 IV.2. Social Insurance and Workplace-related Social Policy (from the 1880s to 1914) 90 IV.2.1. Sectors and types of health and accident insurance: origins, development and interests 91 IV.2.2. Institution and policy 96 IV.2.3. Coverage, boundaries, dissociations and relations: social insurance and the formation and differentiation of working and living conditions 116 Coverage: overview and comparison of long-term trends 116 Compulsory insurance of workers and differentiation of commercial labour relations 122 Compulsory insurance of male and female workers 133 Compulsory insurance of workers in agriculture 137 Social insurance and welfare 143 V. Conclusion 147 Bibliography 155 Index 169 Illustrations 173 ...