Social Insurance and Older People in Cyprus 1878-2004 /

• Main Author: Neocleous, Gregory (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Social service .; Welfare state.; Political sociology.; Social groups.; Family.; Social Care.; Politics of the Welfare State.; Political Sociology.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.

This book explores and analyses the evolution of social insurance in Cyprus from 1878, beginning with the arrival of the British after 300 years of Ottoman occupation. Neocleous follows the struggles of the labour movement which raised the issue of social insurance and initiated the campaign for its...