Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bernard Harris and Paul Bridgen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451416003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; London, : Routledge, 2008
• ISBN: 1-134-21508-8; 1-281-10221-0; 9786611102210; 0-203-93240-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in modern history
• Altri autori (Persone): HarrisBernard <1961->; BridgenPaul
• Disciplina: 361.7094
• Soggetti: Public welfare - History; Welfare economics; Public welfare administration; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: The "Mixed Economy of Welfare" and the Historiography of Welfare Provision; 2 Charity and Poor Relief in England and Wales, Circa 1750-1914; 3 The Mixed Moral Economy of Welfare: European Perspectives; 4 Supporting Self-Help: Charity, Mutuality, and Reciprocity in Nineteenth-Century Britain; 5 Historical Welfare Economics in the Nineteenth Century: Mutual Aid and Private Insurance for Burial, Sickness, Old Age, Widowhood, and Unemployment in the Netherlands; 6 Welfare-State Formation in Scandinavia: The Political Significance of Third-Sector Organisations for the Emergence of Sickness-Insurance Programs in Norway and Sweden7 Housing Charities and the Provision of Social Housing in Germany and the United States of America, Great Britain, and Canada in the Nineteenth Century; 8 "New Alignments": American Voluntarism and the Expansion of Welfare in the 1920s; 9 Voluntary Failure, the Middle Classes, and the Nationalisation of the British Voluntary Hospitals, 1900-1946; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: International in perspective, the essays in this volume are primarily concerned with two facets of the mixed economy of welfare--charity and mutual aid. Emphasizing the close relationship between these two elements and the often blurred boundaries between each of them and commercial provision, contributors raise crucial questions about the relationship between rights and responsibilities within the mixed economy of welfare and the ties which bind both the donors and recipients of charity and the members of voluntary organisations. The volume critically assesses the relationships between the