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

• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (438 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5094
• Soggetto topico: Public welfare - Europe - History; Poor - Europe - History
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Social conditions; Europe Social policy
• Persona (resp. second.): AlthammerBeate; RaphaelLutz <1955->; Stazic-WendtTamara
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rescuing the vulnerable
• ISBN: 1-78533-137-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827830603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International studies in social history ; ; Volume 27.