Social privileges in the Second Polish Republic

• Authors: Paweł Grata

Abstracts

EN

The Second Polish Republic developed an advanced and, in many ways, modern system of social care; however, the services which the citizens were entitled to seemed to be privileges available only to a small part of the population. The origins of this situation are to be found in the specific social and occupational structure of the population, low industrialization rate and the modest financial capabilities of the state and local governments. These resulted in a limited number of people with access to social insurances, a limited scope of public health care, a selective nature of access to unemployment insurance or radical differences in access to social care. And it is this unavailability of the social offer which determines the consideration of those benefits in Poland as privileges rather than commonly available rights of the Polish citizens.

Keywords

EN

social privilege; social security; health care; social care; the Second Polish Republic

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Historiae Oeconomicae
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 33
• Pages: 19-36

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Paweł Grata

• University of Rzeszów, Rzeszów

• https://orcid.org/0000000323583475

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/sho-2015-0002

Biblioteka Nauki

1683779