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A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
Janet R. Horne
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Paperback. Suitable for historians of Europe, sociologists, political scientists, and those interested in French social history, this book demonstrates how French reformers grappled with social problems that are relevance and how they initiated a process that assigned to welfare state the task of achieving social cohesion within an industrialising republic. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15 b&w photos, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFF; JKSB; JPH; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3971 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the story of this institution, offering a nuanced explanation of how, despite centuries of deep ideological division, the French came to agree on the basic premises of their welfare state.
Horne explains how Musée founders believed—and convinced others to believe—that the Third Republic would carry out the social mission of the French Revolution and create a new social contract for modern France, one based on the rights of citizenship and that assumed collective responsibility for the victims of social change. Challenging the persistent notion of the Third Republic as the stagnant backwater of European social reform, Horne instead depicts the intellectually sophisticated and progressive political culture of a generation that laid the groundwork for the rise of a hybrid welfare system, characterized by a partnership between private agencies and government. With a focus on the cultural origins of turn-of-the-century thought—including religion, republicanism, liberalism, solidarism, and early sociology—A Social Laboratory for Modern France demonstrates how French reformers grappled with social problems that are still of the utmost relevance today and how they initiated a process that gave the welfare state the task of achieving social cohesion within an industrializing republic.
Horne explains how Musée founders believed—and convinced others to believe—that the Third Republic would carry out the social mission of the French Revolution and create a new social contract for modern France, one based on the rights of citizenship and that assumed collective responsibility for the victims of social change. Challenging the persistent notion of the Third Republic as the stagnant backwater of European social reform, Horne instead depicts the intellectually sophisticated and progressive political culture of a generation that laid the groundwork for the rise of a hybrid welfare system, characterized by a partnership between private agencies and government. With a focus on the cultural origins of turn-of-the-century thought—including religion, republicanism, liberalism, solidarism, and early sociology—A Social Laboratory for Modern France demonstrates how French reformers grappled with social problems that are still of the utmost relevance today and how they initiated a process that gave the welfare state the task of achieving social cohesion within an industrializing republic.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327929
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V9780822327929
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About Janet R. Horne
Janet R. Horne is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia.
Reviews for A Social Laboratory for Modern France: The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
“[An] elegantly presented book . . . . “ - Maurice Larkin, Times Literary Supplement "This is an extremely useful analysis for anyone interested not only in French social welfare, but also in the history of the parapolitical sphere, associational life among France's elite, and the shifting boundaries between public and private. . . . Horne has done an excellent job of widening the scope of social welfare history, giving us all a whole new range of actors and issues to contemplate." - Steve M. Beaudoin, Journal of Social History "[An] accomplished book." - Elizabeth Sage, Journal of Modern History "Horne's excellent book is a welcome addition to a growing body of historical works on the late nineteenth-century origins of the French welfare state." - Joshua Cole, Social History “Janet Horne’s book provides not only an excellent history of the Musée Social but also an important new perspective on the activities of turn-of-the-twentieth-century reform networks. It demonstrates that the Musée Social constituted a unique French institution, free from Jacobin, centralizing pressures,where experts, intellectuals, and administrators could interact among themselves. Her work reveals the misunderstood but essential role played by independent reformers in the modernization of France.”—Pierre Rosanvallon, directeur d'études à l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales “This book is far more than the history of a single institution. It is also a thoughtful examination of political ideology and social discourse in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an important and convincing argument about the origins of social policy in the Third Republic.”—Don Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “[An] elegantly presented book . . . . “
Maurice Larkin
TLS
"[An] accomplished book."
Elizabeth Sage
Journal of Modern History
"Horne's excellent book is a welcome addition to a growing body of historical works on the late nineteenth-century origins of the French welfare state."
Joshua Cole
Social History
"This is an extremely useful analysis for anyone interested not only in French social welfare, but also in the history of the parapolitical sphere, associational life among France's elite, and the shifting boundaries between public and private. . . . Horne has done an excellent job of widening the scope of social welfare history, giving us all a whole new range of actors and issues to contemplate."
Steve M. Beaudoin
Journal of Social History
Maurice Larkin
TLS
"[An] accomplished book."
Elizabeth Sage
Journal of Modern History
"Horne's excellent book is a welcome addition to a growing body of historical works on the late nineteenth-century origins of the French welfare state."
Joshua Cole
Social History
"This is an extremely useful analysis for anyone interested not only in French social welfare, but also in the history of the parapolitical sphere, associational life among France's elite, and the shifting boundaries between public and private. . . . Horne has done an excellent job of widening the scope of social welfare history, giving us all a whole new range of actors and issues to contemplate."
Steve M. Beaudoin
Journal of Social History