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Agents of Reform

Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State

Elisabeth Anderson

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik

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A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happen

The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to working-class voters. But in Agents of Reform, Elisabeth Anderson shows that the regulatory welfare state began a half century earlier, in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child labor laws.

Agents of Reform tells the story of how middle-class and elite reformers in Europe and the United States defined child labor as a threat to social order, and took the lead in bringing regulatory welfare into being. They built alliances to maneuver around powerful political blocks and instituted pathbreaking new employment protections. Later in the century, now with the help of organized labor, they created factory inspectorates to strengthen and routinize the state’s capacity to intervene in industrial working conditions.

Agents of Reform compares seven in-depth case studies of key policy episodes in Germany, France, Belgium, Massachusetts, and Illinois. Foregrounding the agency of individual reformers, it challenges existing explanations of welfare state development and advances a new pragmatist field theory of institutional change. In doing so, it moves beyond standard narratives of interests and institutions toward an integrated understanding of how these interact with political actors’ ideas and coalition-building strategies.

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Social Thinking, Employment, Extremism, Regulatory agency, Technological change, Industrial Revolution, Sweatshop, Intelligentsia, Speculation, Airspace, Minor (law), Verviers, Safety standards, Child labour, Public participation, Capitalism, Clergy, Working class, Social consciousness, Protestantism, Prussia, Ramp up, Friedrich Engels, Factory inspector, Individual capacity, Competitiveness, Trade union, Middle class, Regulation, Clothing, Public sphere, Social position, Scholarship, Decision-making, Textile, Conciliation, Citation signal, Legislation, Sociocultural evolution, Brutalization, Occupational safety and health, Depiction, Retail, Napoleonic Wars, Bargaining power, Slavery, Labour law, Political Catholicism, Inspection, Bundestag, Labour movement, Lohmann (company), Revolutions of 1830, Finding, Florence Kelley, Proportion (architecture), Proletariat, United States Census, Pillar (car), Pail (container), Social Action, Union Movement, Indulgence, Company town, Labor history of the United States, Social insurance, Bobbin, Advocacy, University of Zurich, Market Forces