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As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France's pressing "social question," the Muse Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the story of this institution, offering a nuanced explanation of how, despite centuries of deep ideological division, the French came to agree on the basic premises of their welfare state.
Horne explains how Muse founders believed--and convinced others to believe--that the Third Republic would carry out the social mission of the French Revolution and create a new social contract for modern France, one based on the rights of citizenship and that assumed collective responsibility for the victims of social change. Challenging the persistent notion of the Third Republic as the stagnant backwater of European social reform, Horne instead depicts the intellectually sophisticated and progressive political culture of a generation that laid the groundwork for the rise of a hybrid welfare system, characterized by a partnership between private agencies and government. With a focus on the cultural origins of turn-of-the-century thought--including religion, republicanism, liberalism, solidarism, and early sociology--A Social Laboratory for Modern France demonstrates how French reformers grappled with social problems that are still of the utmost relevance today and how they initiated a process that gave the welfare state the task of achieving social cohesion within an industrializing republic.

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"This book is far more than the history of a single institution. It is also a thoughtful examination of political ideology and social discourse in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and an important and convincing argument about the origins of social policy in the Third Republic."--Don Reid, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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  • Title A Social Laboratory for Modern France The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State
  • Author Janet R. Horne
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 344
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina
  • Date January 2001
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780822327929
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French

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  • Choice, 10/01/2002, Page 348

About the author

Janet R. Horne is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia.

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