How the Board of Trade's organizational characteristics and policy-making influenced the formation of the Unemployment Insurance in Britain.
Project/Area Number |
20520633
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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Research Institution | Gunma University |
Principal Investigator |
MATSUNAGA Tomoari Gunma University, 国際社会科学研究科, 教授 (50334082)
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Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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Keywords | 社会政策 / 失業保険 / イギリス / 行政 / 西洋史 / 経済史 / 地方行政院 / 保健省 / 商務院 |
Research Abstract |
This project dealt with the origins of unemployment insurance established by Part Two of the National Insurance Act of 1911, which had been the first national compulsory insurance of its kind in world history. I made clear that the civil servants at the Board of Trade who introduced the unemployment insurance were in charge of the promotion of export trade at the same time, and that they tried to avoid introducing a minimum wages legislation. As a result of this project, I proposed the new thesis that unemployment insurance had been a strategy devised by the civil servants at the Board of Trade to weaken workers' demands for higher wages.
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