Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Coalminers, Accidents and Insurance in Late Nineteenth-Century England
- 2 The Costs and Benefits of Size in a Mutual Insurance System: The German Miners’
- 3 A New Welfare System: Friendly Societies in the Eastern Lombardy from 1860 to 1914
- 4 Economic Growth and Demand for Health Coverage in Spain: The Role of Friendly Societies (1870–1942)
- 5 Sickness Insurance and Welfare Reform in England and Wales, 1870–1914
- 6 From Sickness to Death: Revisiting the Financial Viability of the English Friendly Societies, 1875–1908
- 7 America's Rejection of Government Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Implications for Understanding the Determinants and Achievements of Public Insurance of Health Risks
- 8 Medical Assistance Provided by La Conciliación, a Pamplona Mutual Assistance Association (1902–84)
- 9 In it for the Money? Insurers, Sickness Funds and the Dominance of Not-for-Profit Health Insurance in the Netherlands
- 10 Belgian Mutual Health Insurance and the Nation State
- Notes
- Index
3 - A New Welfare System: Friendly Societies in the Eastern Lombardy from 1860 to 1914
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Coalminers, Accidents and Insurance in Late Nineteenth-Century England
- 2 The Costs and Benefits of Size in a Mutual Insurance System: The German Miners’
- 3 A New Welfare System: Friendly Societies in the Eastern Lombardy from 1860 to 1914
- 4 Economic Growth and Demand for Health Coverage in Spain: The Role of Friendly Societies (1870–1942)
- 5 Sickness Insurance and Welfare Reform in England and Wales, 1870–1914
- 6 From Sickness to Death: Revisiting the Financial Viability of the English Friendly Societies, 1875–1908
- 7 America's Rejection of Government Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Implications for Understanding the Determinants and Achievements of Public Insurance of Health Risks
- 8 Medical Assistance Provided by La Conciliación, a Pamplona Mutual Assistance Association (1902–84)
- 9 In it for the Money? Insurers, Sickness Funds and the Dominance of Not-for-Profit Health Insurance in the Netherlands
- 10 Belgian Mutual Health Insurance and the Nation State
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The aim of this chapter is to illustrate the development of the Friendly Societies (or Mutual Aid Organisations which in Italy were called ‘Società di Mutuo Soccorso’, hereafter SMS) in the Eastern Lombardy (particularly the area including the provinces of Brescia and Bergamo) from 1860 to the start of World War 1.
This chapter is based on the analysis of the statutes of the SMS and the collection of the data concerning the censuses of the Italian SMS which was conducted from 1862 to 1904 by the Ministero d'agricoltura, industria e commercio (that is the Department for Agriculture, Industry and Trade, hereafter Maic). These sources allow scholars to verify a variety of aspects of the structure and activity of the SMS in the Eastern Lombardy. In particular, this chapter is concerned with the different types of the SMS and the benefits they granted to their members. Moreover, it presents evidence that in the Eastern Lombardy the SMS created a ‘new welfare system’ while the Italian state did not engage in the provision of welfare support until the twentieth century. In this sense, the SMS in the Eastern Lombardy also represented an important example for the other SMS existing in Northern Italy (again, mainly for the Catholic ones). During the same period they allowed the Catholic and socialist movements to increase their popularity among workers, peasants and craftsmen.
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- Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North AmericaThe Development of Social Insurance, pp. 47 - 64Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014