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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Other Authors: Althammer, Beate 1964- (Editor), Raphael, Lutz 1955- (Editor), Stazic-Wendt, Tamara (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn Books [2016]
Series:International Studies in Social History 27
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Summary: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 in modern Europe
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Nov 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (438 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785331374
DOI:10.1515/9781785331374

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