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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Althammer, Beate, author.

Raphael, Lutz, 1955- author.

Stazic-Wendt, Tamara, author.

Series:

International studies in social history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Europe--History.

Public welfare.

Poor--Europe--History.

Poor.

History.

Europe--Social conditions.

Europe.

Social conditions.

Europe--Social policy.

Social policy.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 427 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2016.

Contents:

1 Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment Regimes / Serge Paugam Paugam, Serge 23

I Endangered Childhoods

2 Living at the Edge of Society: Wallachian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest / Nicoleta Roman Roman, Nicoleta 49

3 Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutions in Hamburg, 1892-1914 / Katharina Brandes Brandes, Katharina 74

4 The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children: Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Ernst Guggisberg Guggisberg, Ernst 97

5 Compassion for the Distant Other: Children's Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War / Fredcrike Kind-Kovács Kind-Kovács, Fredcrike 129

II Vagrancy and Homelessness

6 Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf's Response to Pauperism in the Vormärz / Andrew Cusack Cusack, Andrew

7 Controlling Vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880-1914 / Beats Althammer Althammer, Beats 187

8 The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain / Tehila Sasson Sasson, Tehila 212

III Unemployment

9 'Unite Idle Men with Idle Land': The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905-1908 / Elizabeth A. Scott Scott, Elizabeth A. 237

10 An Unbearable Social Existence: The Unemployed in Rural Poor Relief (Germany, 1918-1933) / Tamara Stazic-Wendt Stazic-Wendt, Tamara 259

11 How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938 / Irina Vana Vana, Irina 283

12 The Poor Unemployed: Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s / Wiebke Wiede Wiede, Wiebke 307

IV Re-Establishing Social Ties: Narratives and Appeals From the Poor

13 Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in Their Own Words / Hubertus Jahn Jahn, Hubertus 335

14 'They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat': Old Age Poverty in German and British Pauper Narratives / Andreas Gestrich Gestrich, Andreas, Daniela Heinisch Heinisch, Daniela 356

15 Seen with Their Own Eyes: Self-presentation of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950-1975 / Dorothee Lürbke Lürbke, Dorothee 382.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785331367

1785331361

OCLC:

934382767