The Welfare State and the 'Deviant Poor' in Europe, 1870-1933 de B. Althammer

The Welfare State and the 'Deviant Poor' in Europe, 1870-1933

B. Althammer

A. Gestrich

J. Gründler

The strife for social improvement that arose in the decades around the turn of the 20th century raised the issue of social conformity in new ways: how were citizens who did not adhere to the rules to be dealt with? This edited collection opens new perspectives on the history of the emerging welfare state by focusing on its margins.

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Express

Paperback (1)

377^.13 lei 6-8 săpt.

Palgrave Macmillan UK – 2014

377^.13 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

385^.44 lei 6-8 săpt.

Palgrave Macmillan UK – 28 mai 2014

385^.44 lei 6-8 săpt.

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Poverty and Deviance in the Era of the Emerging Welfare State; Beate Althammer PART I: FROM MORAL TO SOCIAL CAUSES? SHIFTING CONCEPTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY 2. Poverty in Transnational Discourses: Social Reformers' Debates in Germany and the Netherlands around 1900; Christina May 3. 'A Gigantic System of Casual Pauperism': The Contested Role of the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth-Century Belfast; Olwen Purdue 4. The Duty to Provide: Fathers, Families and the Workhouse in England, 1880-1914; Megan Doolittle 5. The 'New Morocco' Settlement between Trier and Euren, Germany: Drawing Boundaries and Constructing Deviance, 1925-1933; Tamara Stazic-Wendt PART II: ON THE BORDERLINE: THE VAGRANT POOR BETWEEN DESTITUTION AND DELINQUENCY 6. Transnational Expert Discourse on Vagrancy around 1900; Beate Althammer 7. The Usual Suspects: Begging and Law Enforcement in Interwar Austria; Sigrid Wadauer 8. The Bodelschwingh Initiative: A Transcontinental Examination of German Protestant Welfare, 1880-1933; Edward Snyder PART III: BEYOND THE BORDERLINE: THE MENTALLY DEFICIENT AND THE CRIMINAL 9. 'Degeneracy' and 'Moral Imbecility': Local Implementation of Medical Discourses on Deviancy in Scottish Poor Relief Administration; Jens Gründler 10. Convicts in the Shadow of the Rising Welfare State: Between Permanent Detention and Rehabilitation; Desirée Schauz PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 11. Conclusion; Jens Gründler and Andreas Gestrich

Notă biografică

Megan Doolittle, Open University, UKChristina May, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen, GermanyOlwen Purdue, Queen's University, UKDésirée Schauz, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, GermanyEdward N Snyder, St. Olaf College, USATamara Stazic-Wendt, Collaborative Research Centre 600, GermanySigrid Wadauer, Vienna University, Austria