2014
DOI: 10.1093/jsh/shu021
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"You Could Not Get Any Person to be Trusted Except the State": Poorer Workers' Loss of Faith in Voluntarism in Late 19th Century Britain

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“…By the end of the century, the differing trajectories of mutual benefit societies significantly altered the organizational arena within which trade unions engaged-in the United Kingdom, friendly societies experienced a dramatic and protracted period of crisis, leading to a split between the membership and the leadership over the question of state insurance. 7 Faced with this new schism, British New Model unions came to side with friendly society members in support of state benefits. In the United States, by contrast, the turn of the twentieth century was widely recognized as the "Golden Age of Fraternalism."…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By the end of the century, the differing trajectories of mutual benefit societies significantly altered the organizational arena within which trade unions engaged-in the United Kingdom, friendly societies experienced a dramatic and protracted period of crisis, leading to a split between the membership and the leadership over the question of state insurance. 7 Faced with this new schism, British New Model unions came to side with friendly society members in support of state benefits. In the United States, by contrast, the turn of the twentieth century was widely recognized as the "Golden Age of Fraternalism."…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%