Crossing the Strait from Morocco to the United States: the transnational gendering of the Atlantic World before 1830

Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1 Introduction: revisiting the Victorian and Edwardian celebration of death 2 Life, sickness and death 3 Caring for the corpse 4 The funeral 5 Only a pauper whom nobody owns: reassessing the pauper burial 6 Remembering the dead: the cemetery as a landscape for grief 7 Loss, memory and the management of feeling 8 Grieving for dead children 9 Epilogue: death, grief and the Great War Bibliography Index

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Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914

During the late nineteenth century, many countries across Europe adopted national legislation that required employers to compensate workers injured or killed in accidents at work. These laws suggested that the risk of accidents was inherent to work and not due to individual negligence. By focusing on Britain, Germany, and Italy during this time, Julia Moses demonstrates how these laws reflected a major transformation in thinking about the nature of individual responsibility and social risk. The First Modern Risk illuminates the implications of this conceptual revolution for the role of the state in managing problems of everyday life, transforming understandings about both the obligations and rights of individuals. Drawing on a wide array of disciplines including law, history, and politics, Moses offers a fascinating transnational view of a pivotal moment in the evolution of the welfare state.

The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Social States

Industrial assurance, which dates from the 1850s, involved the frequent collection of small Premiums for policies to meet funeral costs. The need to minimize operational and administrative expenses created major business and competitive opportunities. This paper describes the organizational and data-processing innovations in the Prudential Assurance Company that enabled it to achieve and maintain its domination of the British industrial assurance market. Some more general conclusions are drawn on the impact and take-up of office mechanization.

Large-scale data processing in the Prudential, 1850–1930

Agencements are arrangements endowed with the capacity of acting in different ways depending upon how they are configured. In advocating the term ‘agencement’ Callon's aim is to signal the close interweaving of words and actions and thus jettison the more Austinian associations of performativity. Agencement calls attention to the various processes by which economic actors, both human and non-human, are endowed with the fixtures, fittings and devices necessary to conduct themselves in particular ways. Thus depending upon how things are arranged or configured, disinterested or selfish, calculative or non-calculative, individual or collective agencies become possible. This model works well to describe the emergence of markets for industrial branch life assurance in the UK from the nineteenth century. Companies like the Prudential and the Pearl reacted to the conflicts, crises and controversies in the commercial market and the competition between socialized and privatized or prudentialist insurance models wit...

Arnold Wilson

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Burial Reform and Funeral Costs.

A Periplus of the Persian Gulf

Workmen's Compensation.

Burial reform and funeral costs

Industrial Assurance: An Historical and Critical Study.