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Rescuing the Vulnerable: Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe

Rescuing the Vulnerable: Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe

Althammer, Beate
Raphael, Lutz
Stazic-Wendt, Tamara

Hardcover

Series: International Studies in Social History, Book 27

General World HistoryPoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1785331361
ISBN13: 9781785331367
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: May 1 2016
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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