Rescuing the Vulnerable : Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe /

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In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization-challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Althammer, Beate (Contribuidor, Editor ), Brandes, Katharina (Contribuidor), Cusack, Andrew (Contribuidor), Gestrich, Andreas (Contribuidor), Guggisberg, Ernst (Contribuidor), Heinisch, Daniela (Contribuidor), Jahn, Hubertus (Contribuidor), Kind-Kovács, Frederike (Contribuidor), Lürbke, Dorothee (Contribuidor), Paugam, Serge (Contribuidor), Raphael, Lutz (Contribuidor, Editor ), Roman, Nicoleta (Contribuidor), Sasson, Tehila (Contribuidor), Scott, Elizabeth A. (Contribuidor), Stazic-Wendt, Tamara (Contribuidor, Editor ), Vana, Irina (Contribuidor), Wiede, Wiebke (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]
Colección:International Studies in Social History ; 27
Temas:
Poor > Europe > History.
Public welfare > Europe > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations, Figures and Tables
  • Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An Introduction
  • 1 Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment Regimes
  • I. ENDANGERED CHILDHOODS
  • 2 Living at the Edge of Society: Wallachian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest
  • 3 Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutions in Hamburg, 1892-1914
  • 4 The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children: Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • 5 Compassion for the Distant Other: Children's Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War
  • II. VAGRANCY AND HOMELESSNESS
  • 6 Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf's Response to Pauperism in the Vormärz
  • 7 Controlling Vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880-1914
  • 8 The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain
  • III. UNEMPLOYMENT
  • 9 'Unite Idle Men with Idle Land': The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905-1908
  • 10 An Unbearable Social Existence: The Unemployed in Rural Poor Relief (Germany, 1918-1933)
  • 11 How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938
  • 12 The Poor Unemployed: Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s
  • IV. RE-ESTABLISHING SOCIAL TIES: NARRATIVES AND APPEALS FROM THE POOR
  • 13 Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in Their Own Words
  • 14 'They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat': Old Age Poverty in German and British Pauper Narratives
  • 15 Seen with Their Own Eyes: Self-presentation of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950-1975
  • Conclusion: The Twisted Paths of Recognition and Protection: Vulnerability and Welfare in European Societies
  • Index

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