{"product_id":"9780472122233","title":"Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany","description":"While welfare has been subject to pronounced criticism throughout the twentieth century, social insurance has consistently enjoyed the overwhelming support of European policy makers and citizens. This volume argues that the emergence of social insurance represents a paradigmatic shift in modern understandings of health, work, political participation, and government. By institutionalizing compensation, social insurance transformed it into a right that the employed population quickly came to assume.\u003cbr\u003e Theoretically informed and based on intensive archival research on disability insurance records, most of which have never been used by historians, the book considers how social science and political philosophy combined to give shape to the idea of a \"social\" insurance in the nineteenth century; the process by which social insurance gave birth to modern notions of \"disability\" and \"rehabilitation\"; and the early-twentieth-century development of political action groups for the disabled.\u003cbr\u003e Most earlier histories of German social insurance have been legislative histories that stressed the system's coercive features and functions. \u003ci\u003eMaking Security Social\u003c\/i\u003e, by contrast, emphasizes the administrative practices of everyday life, the experience of consumers, and the ability of workers not only to resist, but to transform, social insurance bureaucracy and political debate. It thus demonstrates that social insurance was pivotal in establishing a general attitude of demand, claim, and entitlement as the primary link between the modern state and those it governed.\u003cbr\u003e In addition to historians of Germany, \u003ci\u003eMaking Security Social\u003c\/i\u003e will attract researchers across disciplines who are concerned with public policy, disability studies, and public health.\u003cbr\u003e Greg Eghigian is Associate Professor of History, Penn State University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121784668400,"sku":"9780472122233","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472122233_p0.jpg?v=1763707155","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472122233","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}