Rescuing the Vulnerable

Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-136-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 781 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Althammer, Beate

Raphael, Lutz

Stazic-Wendt, Tamara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations

Figures and Tables

Introduction: Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An Introduction

Beate Althammer and Tamara Stazic-Wendt

Chapter 1. Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment Regimes

Serge Paugam

PART I: ENDANGERED CHILDHOODS

Chapter 2. Living at the Edge of Society: Wallchian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest

Nicoleta Roman

Chapter 3. Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutons in Hamburg, 1892-1914

Katharina Brandes

Chapter 4. The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children: Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Ernst Guggisberg

Chapter 5. Compassion for the Distant Other: Children's Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War

Frederike Kind-Kovács

PART II: VAGRANCY AND HOMELESSNESS

Chapter 6. Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf's Response to Pauperism in the Vormärz

Andrew Cusack

Chapter 7. Controlling Vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880-1914

Beate Althammer

Chapter 8. The Prolbem of Homelessness in Postwar Britain

Tehila Sasson

PART III: UNEMPLOYMENT

Chapter 9. 'United Idle Men with Idle Land': The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905-1908

Elizabeth A. Scott

Chapter 10. An Unbearable Social Existence: The Unemployed in Rural Poor Relief (Germany, 1918-1933)

Tamara Stazic-Wendt

Chapter 11. How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938

Irina Vana

Chapter 12. The Poor Unemployed: Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s

Wiebke Wiede

PART IV: RE-ESTABLISHING SOCIAL TIES: NARRATIVES AND APPEALS FROM THE POOR

Chapter 13. Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in Their Own Words

Hubertus Jahn

Chapter 14. 'They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat': Old Age Poverty in German and British Pauper Narratives

Andreas Gestrich and Daniela Heinisch

Chapter 15. Seen With Their Own Eyes: Self-Presentation of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950-1975

Dorothee Lürbke

Conclusion: The Twisted Paths of Recognition and Protection: Vulnerability and Welfare in European Societies

Lutz Raphael

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Althammer, Beate
Beate Althammer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trier and a visiting lecturer at the University of Lüneburg. 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).

Raphael, Lutz
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?: Zugehörigkeitsrechte Fremder von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Ein Handbuch (2014).

Stazic-Wendt, Tamara
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).

Beate Althammer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trier and a visiting lecturer at the University of Lüneburg. 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).