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Rescuing the Vulnerable: Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
Beate Althammer (Ed.)
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Description for Rescuing the Vulnerable: Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
Hardback. Covering numerous European nations, this volume explores social ties, poverty, and how their relationship informed the strategies of governments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Althammer, Beate; Raphael, Lutz; Stazic-Wendt, Tamara. Series: International Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 440 pages, 19 illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; JFFA; JFFB; JKSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 307 x 30. Weight in Grams: 748.
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 perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability ... Read more
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 perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Series
International Studies in Social History
Number of Pages
438
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785331367
SKU
V9781785331367
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About Beate Althammer (Ed.)
Beate Althammer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trier and a visiting lecturer at the University of Lueneburg. She is author of Das Bismarckreich 1871-1890 (2009) and co-editor of the volumes Bettler und Vaganten in der Neuzeit (1500-1933) (2013) and The Welfare State and the Deviant Poor in Europe, 1870-1933 (2014). Lutz Raphael ... Read more
Reviews for Rescuing the Vulnerable: Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
This volume's focus on the young, the homeless, and the unemployed is particularly welcome given the limited amount of scholarship within histories of poverty and welfare on these groups. The book's underlying principles are of universal significance and will be of interest to the general reader of welfare history. Olwen Purdue, Queen's University Belfast