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A revised and updated version of
Abraham Kuyper: An Annotated Bibliography 1857-2010 by Tjitze Kuipers (2011)

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1895

1895.23
Proeve van pensioenregeling voor werklieden en huns gelijken.
Amsterdam, J.A. Wormser [1895] (Amsterdam, J.B. Vrolijk). 102, [1] pp., 25cm.—ƒ0.40.
Run: 5,000.
Published: November 1895.
Preface dated: Amsterdam, November 1, 1895.
The title (3,641 copies) was put up for auction and acquired by J.H. Kok, Kampen, on December 12, 1907.
RKB 135.
ET: Draft of a pension scheme for workers and their peers.

These nineteen articles reprinted from De Standaard provide an experimental design for a pension system that would operate on the basis of mandatory insurance for workers against sickness, disability, and unemployment. The system would also provide support for the widowed, orphaned, and elderly.

The articles have been reprinted from De Standaard 24 (1895), no. 7082, April 8, 1895; no. 7086, April 12, 1895; no. 7088, April 15, 1895–no. 7089, April 17, 1895; in alternative numbers starting with no. 7091, April 19, 1895–no. 7097, April 26, 1895; no. 7101, May 1, 1895–no. 7119, May 22, 1895; and no. 7120, May 23, 1895 (summary in 24 theses; see also 1940.03, pp. 101–104). Also included are two additional articles, taken from De Standaard 24 (1895), no. 7122, May 27 and no. 7124, May 29, 1895, about care for those with either no income or an income too low to afford the pension premiums.

In the foreword, Kuyper relates that he had originally been opposed to publishing these articles together in pamphlet form. He saw all the more reason to refrain from their publication after a state commission had been set up (on July 31, 1895) to examine if laws ought to be established to govern the equitable distribution of social aid to those who could not take care of themselves as a result of old age or disability. However, when the members of the Dutch Workingmen’s Union “Patrimonium” (see 1880.11) asked to publish these articles so that its members could become more familiar with the issues, he felt that it would be unkind not to consent.