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Paupers, burial clubs and funeral insurance: Calculating moral panics

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  • Moerman, Lee
  • van der Laan, Sandra

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Funeral insurance is an example of a practice that has evolved from the grass-roots burial clubs that developed from the 18th century as a response to the social anxiety wrought by the threat of a pauper's funeral. Largely accessed by the poor and working classes to avoid this social stigma, burial clubs commodified a social risk into a manageable and controllable financial arrangement. We explore this phenomenon through the lens of moral panic to trace the calculative practices that recast the social anxiety of a pauper's funeral into the novel metric of a ‘funeral benefit’.

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  • Moerman, Lee & van der Laan, Sandra, 2021. "Paupers, burial clubs and funeral insurance: Calculating moral panics," The British Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 53(2).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:bracre:v:53:y:2021:i:2:s0890838920300317
    DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2020.100911
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