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100	1		_aBrock, William Ranulf _eVerfasserIn _4aut _928219
245	1	0	_aInvestigation and responsibility _bpublic responsibility in the United States, 1865-1900
246	3	3	_aInvestigation & Responsibility
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press , _cJanuary 2009 .
300			_a(viii, 280 pages)
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
520			_aInvestigation and Responsibility deals with the extension of social responsibility in the American states during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Lord Bryce questioned the reality of American belief in laissez faire, and recent work has reinforced these doubts. Professor Brock makes a substantial contribution to this reassessment, through an examination of the activities of the agencies established at a state level for the regulation of the social environment. Using the evidence provided by the published reports of the state agencies, he argues that these activities were far more extensive then has often been thought, and indicates the ways in which they laid the foundations for modern government activity in the fields of welfare, health, safety, labour law, and economic regulation. By a detailed examination of such agencies as boards of state charities and public health, bureaus of labour statistics, and railroad commissions, Professor Brock places the extension of state responsibility in a new perspective. The book also includes a reassessment of judicial opinion and closes with an examination of the way in which experience in the states influenced the development of national policy
520			_aPublic Responsibility -- Theory and Practice -- Public Responsibility and the Law -- The Charities of the State -- The Boards of Public Health -- The Bureaus of Labor Statistics -- The Railroad Commission -- Toward the Future
650		0	_aState governments _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century _928220
650		4	_aState governments ; United States ; History ; 19th century _928221
650		4	_aUnited States ; Economic policy ; To 1933 _928222
650		4	_aUnited States ; Social policy _928223
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial policy _928224
651		0	_aUnited States _xEconomic policy _yTo 1933 _928225
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776	1		_z9780521258975 _c : hardback
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776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780521258975
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