Pt. 1. From Tutelage to Contract -- 1. Protections of Proximity -- 2. Embeddedness in Society -- 3. The Indignity of Wage Labor -- 4. Liberal Modernity -- Pt. 2. From Contract to Status -- 5. Politics Without a State -- 6. Social Property -- 7. Wage-Earning Society -- 8. The New Social Question -- Conclusion: Negative Individualism.
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This book reconstructs the history of what the author calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two constants bearing directly on the question of who is entitled to relief and who can be excluded: the degree of embeddedness in any given community and the ability to work. Along this dual axis the author locates virtually the entire history of social welfare in early-modern and contemporary Europe.