Contesting Risk: Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany, and Italy, 1870–1920

Moses, Julia

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“…It is the result of political will and action. International organisations have played a role and mobilised academic expertise, as they did in the past for the promotion of other guarantees, such as work accident insurance (Moses, 2012). The main publications that address the diffusion of new social or civic rights for people with disabilities are often supported by the same institutions that hold these norms to be universal principles.…”

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Introduction: Implementing Disability Rights in National Contexts: Norms, Diffusion, and Conflicts

Aucante¹,

Baudot²

2017

Social Policy & Society

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Introduction: Implementing Disability Rights in National Contexts: Norms, Diffusion, and Conflicts

Aucante¹,

Baudot²

2017

Social Policy & Society

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“…On the one hand, increasing specialization in various fields, from industrial hygiene to economics, along with the significant expansion of governmental bureaucracies, meant that new territories for charting risk opened up for state intervention. World War I, which sparked the need for states to plan both their war economies and the social and economic reconstruction that would ensue following the end of military action, served to crystalize the importance of planning for the future based on the advice of experts in these areas (Lengwiler 2006;Moses 2012). On the other hand, from the late nineteenth century, international and transnational organizations such as the International Labor Organization began work on a collective project of mapping risk and determining possible, mostly state driven, solutions for managing it (Kott and Droux 2013).…”

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Introduction: Moving Targets Risk, Security, and the Social in Twentieth-Century Europe

Moses¹,

Rosenhaft²

2015

Social Science History

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According to the sociologists Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens, modern societies have become increasingly preoccupied with the future and safety and have mobilized themselves in order to manage systematically what they have perceived as “risks” (Beck 1992; Giddens 1991). This special section investigates how conceptions of risk evolved in Europe over the course of the twentieth century by focusing on the creation and evolution of social policy. The language of risk has, in the past twenty years, become a matter of course in conversations about social policy (Kemshall 2002). We seek to trace how “risk” has served as a heuristic tool for understanding and treating “social problems.” A key aim of this collection is to explore the character of social policy (in the broadest sense) as an instrument (or technology) that both constructs its own objects as the consequences of “risks” and generates new “risks” in the process (Lupton 2004: 33). In this way, social policy typifies the paradox of security: by attempting literally to making one “carefree,” or sē (without) curitās (care), acts of (social) security spur new insecurities about what remains unprotected (Hamilton 2013: 3–5, 25–26). Against this semantic and philological context, we suggest that social policy poses an inherent dilemma: in aiming to stabilize or improve the existing social order, it also acts as an agent of change. This characteristic of social policy is what makes particularly valuable studies that allow for comparisons across time, place, and types of political regime. By examining a range of cases from across Europe over the course of the twentieth century, this collection seeks to pose new questions about the role of the state; ideas about risk and security; and conceptions of the “social” in its various forms.

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“…Through a detailed historical account of twentieth-century Finland, I seek to trace the genealogy of work-family reconciliation 1 not only as an NSR, but more specifically as a "problem" of social policy. Drawing from scholarship on "scientization" (Brückweh et al 2012;Moses 2012;Raphael 1996Raphael , 2012 while taking a Foucauldian approach (Foucault 1977;Peltonen 2004;Shiner 1982), I would like to suggest that social scientific thought played a special role in this history. By analyzing policy reports and other documents from the 1930s to the 1980s, I aim to identify the forms of knowledge, expertise, and rationality through which this "problem" was rendered intelligible and manageable in the context of the emerging and expanding Finnish welfare state.…”

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A New Social Risk? Social-Scientific Knowledge and Work-Life Balance in Twentieth-Century Finland

Eräranta¹

2015

Social Science History

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Work-life balance, or the reconciliation of work and family, has been discussed recently as a "new social risk" in comparative research on the welfare state. According to this discussion, the social security systems of traditional welfare states were built after World War II in order to protect (male) breadwinners against the "old social risks" such as the loss of income due to old age, sickness, accident, or unemployment. Scholars have argued, however, that these postwar policies have been inadequate for dealing with the new types of risks that resulted from complex changes in employment practices and family life. This article reflects critically upon the conceptualization of work-life balance as a new social risk by focusing on one of the Nordic countries, which have come to be known for their policies that combine (female) parenthood and paid work. In particular, it analyzes the problematization and governance of work-family reconciliation in twentieth-century Finland. Overall, the article argues that social scientific knowledge played a key role in the ways in which work-life balance was rendered intelligible and manageable as a social policy issue.

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Contesting Risk: Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany, and Italy, 1870–1920

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Introduction: Implementing Disability Rights in National Contexts: Norms, Diffusion, and Conflicts

Introduction: Implementing Disability Rights in National Contexts: Norms, Diffusion, and Conflicts

Introduction: Moving Targets Risk, Security, and the Social in Twentieth-Century Europe

A New Social Risk? Social-Scientific Knowledge and Work-Life Balance in Twentieth-Century Finland

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