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| Other authors / contributors: | Obinger, Herbert, 1970- editor.
Petersen, Klaus, 1965- editor.
Starke, Peter, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN: | 9780191824647
019182464X
9780191085093
019108509X
0198779593
9780198779599
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 28, 2018).
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| Summary: | "While the first half of the 20th century was characterized by total war, the second half witnessed, at least in the Western world, a massive expansion of the modern welfare state. A growing share of the population was covered by ever more generous systems of social protection that dramatically reduced poverty and economic inequality in the post-war decades. With it also came a growth in social spending, taxation and regulation that changed the nature of the modern state and the functioning of market economies. Whether and in which ways warfare and the rise of the welfare state are related, is subject of this volume. Distinguishing between three different phases (war preparation, wartime mobilization, and the post-war period), the volume provides the first systematic comparative analysis of the impact of war on welfare state development in the western world. The chapters written by leading scholars in this field examine both short-term responses to and long-term effects of war in fourteen belligerent, occupied, and neutral countries in the age of mass warfare stretching over the period from ca. 1860 to 1960. The volume shows that both world wars are essential for understanding several aspects of welfare state development in the western world
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| Other form: | Print version: Warfare and welfare. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press 2018 9780198779599
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