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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480030703321

Titolo

Rescuing the vulnerable : poverty, welfare and social ties in modern Europe / / edited by Beate Althammer, Lutz Raphael and Tamara Stazic-Wendt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78533-137-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (438 p.)

Collana

International Studies in Social History ; ; Volume 27

Disciplina

362.5094

Soggetti

Public welfare - Europe - History

Poor - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Europe Social conditions

Europe Social policy

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

Intro; Series Page; Title page; Imprint page; Contents; Illustrations, Figures and Tables; Introduction; Chapter 1: Poverty and Social Bonds; Part I: Endangered Childhoods; Chapter 2: Living at the Edge of Society; Chapter 3: Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children?; Chapter 4: The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children; Chapter 5: Compassion for the Distant Other; Part II: Vagrancy and Homelessness; Chapter 6: Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis; Chapter 7: Controlling Vagrancy; Chapter 8: The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain; Part III: Unemployment

Chapter 9: 'Unite Idle Men with Idle Land'Chapter 10: An Unbearable Social Existence; Chapter 11: How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938; Chapter 12: The Poor Unemployed; Part IV: Re-establishing Social Ties; Chapter 13: Voices from the Lower Depths; Chapter 14: 'They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat'; Chapter 15: Seen with Their Own Eyes; Conclusion; Index