Caring for the Socially Marginalised in Interwar Europe, 1919-1939

The Mixed Economy of Welfare
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-53344-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: New Directions in Welfare History

This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that assisted socially marginalised people in interwar Europe, namely the state, local authorities, and a combination of voluntary and informal actors. While literature has traditionally emphasised the key role of the state, the cooperation between public authorities and private actors has always been a staple of social policy in Europe throughout history. The interwar years prominently featured these entanglements between the increased public sphere of action and the voluntary sector. Focusing on three thematic areas: warfare and its effects; boundaries of aid and institutional segregation; and gender and religion, the authors present case studies from various European countries between 1919 and 1939. All contributions explore the variegated world that composed the so-called mixed economy of welfare. By shifting the emphasis to the collaborations and frictions between social marginals, non-state actors, and public authorities on a local, national, and transnational level, the book challenges too simplistic distinctions between public and private initiatives and reveals the cultural, political, and practical common traits that featured in European care for marginals across a variety of geographical variations and socio-political contexts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrungaro, Stefano

Mioni, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Assistance and Vulnerability in Interwar Europe: An Overview, .- Part I. Strains of War.- 2. New Battlefields, New Marginals: Orphans and Refugees in Zaragoza during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, .- 3. The Associative Action of the Broken Faces in the Making of a Mixed Economy of Welfare in Interwar France, .- 4. Assisting the 'Legitimate Family': International Social Work for Displaced Italians, 1921-1940, .- Part II. Care and Institutional Segregation.- 5. Czech Children in Need and the Mixed Economy of Welfare in Interwar Czechoslovakia, 1918–1939, .- 6. Voluntary Aid to People with Mental Disorders in Croatia in the 1930s, .- 7. Private Actors, Public Intervention, and International Networking: Child Assistance in Interwar Lithuania, .- 8. The Marginalisation of ‘Unmarried Mothers’ in Ireland between 1918 and 1939, .- Part III. Gender and Religion.- 9. Rescuing Endangered Girls: The Yugoslav Experience in a Comparative View, .-10. The State / Non-state Boundary, Interwar Marginality and the Lutheran Background in the Danish Welfare State, .- 11. Tramps and Girl-Mothers between Stigmatisation and Social Integration: Belgium, 1918-1940, .

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Mioni is a Research Associate at the Centre d’Histoire Sociale des Mondes Contemporains (CHS) at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in France.

Stefano Petrungaro is Associate Professor of the History of Eastern Europe at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy.