Social justice in twentieth-century Europe / edited by Martin Conway, University of Oxford, Camilo Erlichman, Maastricht University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conway, Martin, 1960- editor.

Erlichman, Camilo, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice--Europe--History--20th century.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. Using a transnational approach, this book provides the first historical account of the evolution of social justice across Europe during the twentieth century, and explores the divergent ways different groups have understood and sought to achieve social justice"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Social Justice: A Historical Introduction

2 Social Justice within a Market Society: The Debate in Western Europe from the End of the Nineteenth Century

Introduction: How to Write a History of Social Justice?

How to Write a History of the Market?

Empowerment in the Age of the Social Question

Productive Contribution in the Age of the Welfare State

Entrepreneurial Investment in the Age of Neoliberalism

Conclusion

3 Catholic Conceptions of Social Justice from 1891 to Pope Francis

'Organicist' and 'Radical' Social Justice

Contesting the Vatican's Social Justice: Catholic Radical Alternatives

4 Social Justice through Taxation?: Taxing the Rich in Belgium in the 1920s

''Justice in Taxation''

Pragmatism in Taxation

The 'Unfairness' of the Supertax

5 A Fascist Social Justice?: Hierarchy, Order, and Equity in Southern European Corporatism

Introduction

Roots of Fascist 'Social Justice'

A Functionalist Understanding of 'Social Justice'

A Well-Ordered Society

Pedagogy and Exclusion

Conclusions

6 Social Justice in Authoritarian Central Europe: Czechoslovakia under Nazism and Communism

Social Justice through Authoritarian Welfare

National Welfare and Labour Relations

Communist Ideals and the Limits of Social Equality

7 Social Justice in a Socialist Society: Understandings of Social Justice and Social Policy in Hungary after 1945

Socialism: No Market, No Social Injustice, No Need for Social Policy

A New Hope: Reinventing Social Policy and Social Justice

The Return of the Notion of Social Justice in Housing Policy

The Second Economy Strikes Back: The Competition between Socialism and Capitalism

Conclusion: The Market Awakens

8 Immigrants and Social Justice in Western Europe since the 1960s

9 Reimagining Peace through Social Justice in Mid- to Late Twentieth-Century Europe

Lineages: The Making of Positive Peace as a Discourse of Social Justice

Legacies: The Outcomes of Positive Peace

10 Social Justice or Sexual Justice?: Social Justice and the Problem of Women in Twentieth-Century Europe

Social-Justice Feminism, Socialism, and Communism

Social Justice, Sexual Justice, and the Post-War Welfare States

Social Justice versus Sexual Justice?

11 Equity Rules: Social Justice on the Ruins of Socialism

Precedents in Popular Capitalism

East European Variations

12 Bridging the Void: Social Justice in the History of the European Union

An Imported Model

The Logic of the Common Market, 1950s to Early 1970s

The Discreet Expansion of EC Activism, 1970s to Early 1990s

Social Justice since the Early 1990s

13 Postscript

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Feb 2024).

ISBN:

9781009370820

1009370820

9781009370868

1009370863

9781009370837

1009370839