The European Social Security System 1885-1945
Peter Flora(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 1. March 2008
Book
Hardback
500 pages
978-0-333-77709-1 (ISBN)
Description
This is the most comprehensive statistical set available on Western European social insurance. The accompanying CD-ROM gives all documentary information giving the user the ability to manipulate the data as desired. Numeric data is provided in Excel files. All major fields of change are covered. The development of social security and social insurance is analyzed and differences highlighted country by country. Datasets on developments in European society are presented clearly and systematically. Data is presented statistically and is always clearly comparative."The European Social Security System 1885-1945" is a comparative and historical data handbook and accompanying CD-ROM presenting series data on social insurance for the countries of Western and Central Europe. The handbook and CD-ROM concentrates on the development of social security prior to the Second World War.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77709-1 (9780333777091)
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Person
All data is from the MANNHEIM CENTRE FOR COCIAL RESEARCH (MZES), a body affiliated to the University of Mannheim, Germany, and one of the leading social research institutes in the world. PETER FLORA is professor of sociology at the University of Mannheim. His main field of research is the historical macrosociology of European societies and welfare states.