The Welfare State and the 'Deviant Poor' in Europe, 1870-1933 [electronic resource] /
Althammer, B.editor.
Gestrich, A.editor.
Gründler, J.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Poverty and Deviance in the Era of the Emerging Welfare State; 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; 3 ''A Gigantic System of Casual Pauperism'': The Contested Role of the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth-Century Belfast; 4 The Duty to Provide: Fathers, Families and the Workhouse in England, 1880-1914
5 The ''New Morocco'' Settlement between Trier and Euren, Germany: Drawing Boundaries and Constructing Deviance, 1925-1933Part II: On the Borderline: The Vagrant Poor Between Destitution and Delinquency; 6 Transnational Expert Discourse on Vagrancy around 1900; 7 The Usual Suspects: Begging and Law Enforcement in Interwar Austria; 8 The Bodelschwingh Initiative: A Transcontinental Examination of German Protestant Welfare, 1880-1933; 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 Administration10 Convicts in the Shadow of the Rising German Welfare State: Between Permanent Detention and Rehabilitation; Part IV: Conclusions; 11 Conclusion; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
World politics.
Social history.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Welfare state.
Political History.
Social History.
European History.
Modern History.
Politics of the Welfare State.