The growth and distribution of English friendly societies in the early nineteenth century

Gorsky, Martin

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“…Ward was as interested in the ways that children in the city and the countryside built their own play areas as he was in the ways that members of the public sought to build their own holiday homes, houses, allotments, squats, health centres, and schools (Crouch and Ward, 1997;Ward, 1974;1988;1990b;Ward and Hardy, 2003;White, 2011). For Ward, mutual aid and self-help were the fundamental principles for an anarchist society and at the same time also virtuous practices that reflected social solidarity and individual independence.…”

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Public participation and public services in British liberal democracy: Colin Ward's anarchist critique

Wilkin¹,

Boudeau²

2015

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

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Abstract. The aim of this paper is to set out a critique of the prevailing academic and government accounts of 'public participation'. This critique is drawn from the work of the British anarchist Colin Ward, which we argue is significant because it provides an alternative to state-led or market-led models of public participation. Both of the latter models subject individuals to external forms of authority (state or market). By contrast, Ward reminds us that the working-class tradition of free and autonomous associations, illustrated notably by the friendly societies, established a different understanding of public participation, one which presupposes the actual running and maintaining of the very services that the public relied upon through the key values of mutual aid and self-help. We describe the nature of these associations and suggest that, historically, they have been the most accomplished alternatives to state-led and market-led approaches to public participation.

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Section: Mutual Aid and Self-helpmentioning

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Public participation and public services in British liberal democracy: Colin Ward's anarchist critique

Wilkin¹,

Boudeau²

2015

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

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“…Moreover, to develop further age dummies we rely on an age notion that the British royal commission used in 1870-4 and which appeared in a subsequent Act in 1875 in regards to age benefits. The transition into "Old age" was defined to begin at 50 (Arias 2004, Boyer 1988, Eysenck 2004, Gorsky 1998). We will also explore whether females in their reproductive age are more likely to survive compared to other women.…”

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Noblesse oblige? Determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation

Frey

Savage

Torgler

2010

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Abstract:This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural experiment do provide behavioural evidence which is rare in such a controlled and life threatening event. The empirical results support that social norm such as "women and children first" survive in such an environment. We also observe that women of reproductive age have a higher probability of surviving among women. On the other hand, we observe that crew members used their information advantage and their better access to resources (e.g. lifeboats) to generate a higher probability of surviving. The paper also finds that passenger class, fitness, group size, and cultural background matter.JEL Classifications: D63; D64; D71; D81

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“…14 While Martin Gorsky also emphasized the importance to membership growth of migration to towns, fraternal associations perhaps aimed at those left behind by their kin were also popular in the countryside. 15 There were confraternities for Jews and for Jesuits, and friendly societies for French Huguenots in London and Germans in Bradford, England. 16 In Wales the Irish settlers created their own friendly societies which promoted local and national patriotism.…”

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Seven Hundred Years of Fraternal Orders

Weinbren¹

2010

Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300–2000

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For hundreds of years there has been an allure in popular culture to the notion of a band of brothers. From before Shakespeare's Henry V, through Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, to the twenty-first century TV mini-series Band of Brothers, the phrase has evoked images of men fiercely loyal to one another, united for a cause greater than themselves. This interest has not been reflected in concerted scholarly attention to the long-term influence of fraternal organizations. This chapter introduces the theme of the volume in a literature review and contextualizes the authors' contributions.The aim of this volume is to conceptualize fraternal organizations and to emphasize the significance of their roles in both transforming and being changed by European societies over many centuries. It explores the significance of the links between rituals, secrecy, hierarchy and the maintenance of gendered roles over a period of several hundred years enabling new comparisons to be made and wider social mores to be reconfigured. No single associational form can encompass British friendly societies, French fraternal bodies, Lerwick's 'Vikings' and Flemish 'parrot' shooters. However, if we classify them as siblings, the similar aspects of their responses to common threats and comparable opportunities emerge in a new light. There are studies of such bodies as the convent-based Youth Confraternity of the Purification of the Virgin (which had an important economic role and spread ideas about the importance of public, political and religious duties), the confraternities of early modern Florence and Bologna (which prepared abandoned children for civic life and family roles), the German regional student fraternities, Landsmannschaften (with their duelling ritual and rules about the order of meetings and the colours to be worn on armbands and sashes) and the fraternal associations which helped men to form communities in nineteenth-century America. 1 In

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The growth and distribution of English friendly societies in the early nineteenth century

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Cited by 49 publications

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Public participation and public services in British liberal democracy: Colin Ward's anarchist critique

Public participation and public services in British liberal democracy: Colin Ward's anarchist critique

Noblesse oblige? Determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation

Seven Hundred Years of Fraternal Orders

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