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Rescuing the Vulnerable : Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe / ed. by Beate Althammer, Tamara Stazic-Wendt, Lutz Raphael.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Studies in Social History ; 27Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781785331367
  • 9781785331374
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  • 362.5094 23/eng
LOC classification:
  • HV238
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An Introduction -- 1 Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment Regimes -- I. ENDANGERED CHILDHOODS -- 2 Living at the Edge of Society: Wallachian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest -- 3 Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutions in Hamburg, 1892–1914 -- 4 The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children: Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 5 Compassion for the Distant Other: Children’s Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War -- II. VAGRANCY AND HOMELESSNESS -- 6 Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf’s Response to Pauperism in the Vormärz -- 7 Controlling Vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880–1914 -- 8 The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain -- III. UNEMPLOYMENT -- 9 ‘Unite Idle Men with Idle Land’: The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905–1908 -- 10 An Unbearable Social Existence: The Unemployed in Rural Poor Relief (Germany, 1918–1933) -- 11 How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918–1938 -- 12 The Poor Unemployed: Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s -- IV. RE-ESTABLISHING SOCIAL TIES: NARRATIVES AND APPEALS FROM THE POOR -- 13 Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in Their Own Words -- 14 ‘They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat’: Old Age Poverty in German and British Pauper Narratives -- 15 Seen with Their Own Eyes: Self-presentation of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950–1975 -- Conclusion: The Twisted Paths of Recognition and Protection: Vulnerability and Welfare in European Societies -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An Introduction -- 1 Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment Regimes -- I. ENDANGERED CHILDHOODS -- 2 Living at the Edge of Society: Wallachian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest -- 3 Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutions in Hamburg, 1892–1914 -- 4 The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children: Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- 5 Compassion for the Distant Other: Children’s Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War -- II. VAGRANCY AND HOMELESSNESS -- 6 Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf’s Response to Pauperism in the Vormärz -- 7 Controlling Vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880–1914 -- 8 The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain -- III. UNEMPLOYMENT -- 9 ‘Unite Idle Men with Idle Land’: The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905–1908 -- 10 An Unbearable Social Existence: The Unemployed in Rural Poor Relief (Germany, 1918–1933) -- 11 How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918–1938 -- 12 The Poor Unemployed: Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s -- IV. RE-ESTABLISHING SOCIAL TIES: NARRATIVES AND APPEALS FROM THE POOR -- 13 Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in Their Own Words -- 14 ‘They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat’: Old Age Poverty in German and British Pauper Narratives -- 15 Seen with Their Own Eyes: Self-presentation of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950–1975 -- Conclusion: The Twisted Paths of Recognition and Protection: Vulnerability and Welfare in European Societies -- Index

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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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