Rescuing the Vulnerable: Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe: 27 (International Studies in Social History, 27) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785331361 ISBN 13: 9781785331367

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"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

About the Author:

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 is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trier. His recent books include Imperiale Gewalt und Mobilisierte Nation: Europa 1914-1945 (2011) and (together with Altay Coskun) Fremd und rechtlos?: Zugehoerigkeitsrechte Fremder von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Ein Handbuch (2014). Tamara Stazic-Wendt is a doctoral student at the University of Trier and is currently completing her dissertation on unemployment in rural Germany during the interwar period. Her recent publications include "The 'New Morocco' Settlement between Trier and Euren, Germany: Drawing Boundaries and Constructing Deviance, 1925-1933" in The Welfare State and the "Deviant Poor" in Europe, 1870-1933 (2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1785331361
• ISBN 13: 9781785331367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Althammer Beate, Raphael Lutz, Stazic-Wendt Tamara