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 cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on three representative populations-neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed-it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting per…
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Weitere Autoren: Raphael, Lutz (Hrsg.) / Stazic-Wendt, Tamara (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78533-137-4
- EAN: 9781785331374
- Produktnummer: 20454427
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 438 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'832 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 27
Über den Autor
Lutz Raphael is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trier. His recent books include Imperiale Gewalt und Mobilisierte Nation: Europa 1914-1945 (2011) and (together with Altay Coskun) Fremd und rechtlos?: Zugehörigkeitsrechte Fremder von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Ein Handbuch (2014).
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