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Rescuing the vulnerable : poverty, welfare and social ties in modern Europe /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Althammer, Beate (Editor ), Raphael, Lutz, 1955- (Editor ), Stazic-Wendt, Tamara (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.
Colección:International studies in social history ; v. 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Poverty and social bonds: towards a theory of attachment regimes / Serge Paugam
  • Living at the edge of society: Wallachian orphans in nineteenth-century Bucharest / Nicoleta Roman
  • Orphans, pauper children or wayward children? The lives of children cared for by public institutions in Hamburg, 1892-1914 / Katharina Brandes
  • The reduction of poverty starts with children: Swiss societies for educating the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ernst Guggisberg
  • Compassion for the distant other: children's hunger and humanitarian relief in the aftermath of the great war / Frederike Kind-Kovács
  • Traditional mobility and solidarity in crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf's response to pauperism in the Vormärz, Andrew Cusack
  • Controlling vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880-1914 / Beate Althammer
  • The problem of homelessness in post-war Britain / Tehila Sasson
  • 'Unite idle men with idle land': the evolution of the Hollesley Bay training farm experiment for the London unemployed, 1905-1908 / Elizabeth A. Scott
  • An unbearable social existence: the unemployed in rural poor relief (Germany, 1918-1933) / Tamara Stazic-Wendt
  • How unemployment was normalized by the establishment of public labour exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938 / Irina Vana
  • The poor unemployed: diagnoses of unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s / Wiebke Wiede
  • Voices from the lower depths: Russian poor in their own words / Hubertus Jahn
  • 'They sit for days and have only their sorrow to eat': old age poverty in Germany and British pauper narratives / Andreas Gestrich and Daniela Heinisch
  • Seen with their own eyes: self-presentation of the poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950-1975 / Dorothee Lürbke
  • Conclusion: the twisted paths of recognition and protection: vulnerability and welfare in European societies / Lutz Raphael.