Synopsis
A classic lecture tracing citizenship's expansion through civil, then political, then social rights, arguing social rights temper capitalism's inequalities.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workFull citizenship grew in three stages, and its modern form adds social rights, a basic share in society's standards, that partly offsets market inequality.
It supplies the theoretical foundation for the welfare state as the completion of equal citizenship.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Gøsta Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.
Reading note
Read it as a short, schematic lecture, holding its tidy three-stage sequence up against messier real histories.
Best paired with
Gøsta Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism