Conservative statesmen granted welfare concessions to defuse working-class unrest

Evidence

Bismarck put through legislation providing for sickness and old age pensions; Disraeli denounced certain of the worst excesses of mid-Victorian capitalism in his novels, and his ministry (1874-80) limited the working day for women and children, passed the Combination Act of 1875 giving limited recognition to trade unions, and put through the Public Health Act and the Artisans’ Dwelling Act in the same year, etc. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2349

Categorization

• XREF: Concrete nineteenth-century instance of hegemony-by-concession, the mechanism Gramsci theorizes elsewhere as passive revolution and transformism; useful grounding for the Islamophobia module’s accounts of states managing dissent through partial accommodation. — connects to: Welfare concessions designed to appease workers instead inflamed demands to abolish capitalism. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 111; Conservative theorists aimed to habituate workers to depersonalized labour without concessions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 569; State dependence on soldiers’ bodies secured social bargaining power (+5 more)
• SHARE: A niche tidbit for the one friend who insists social insurance was purely humanitarian — Bismarck’s pensions and Disraeli’s factory acts as pre-emptive counter-revolution.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Welfare concessions designed to appease workers instead inflamed demands to abolish capitalism. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 111; Conservative theorists aimed to habituate workers to depersonalized labour without concessions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 569; State dependence on soldiers’ bodies secured social bargaining power (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Welfare concessions designed to appease workers instead inflamed demands to abolish capitalism. #complicates (0.88) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 111
• Terrorism shook Western faith that welfare state reforms eliminate civil strife #complicates (0.76)