Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800
By: edited by Bernard Harris and Paul Bridgen.
Contributors: Harris, Bernard, 1961-; Bridgen, Paul.
Series: Routledge studies in modern British history -- 4
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780415365598
Subjects: Public welfare -- History; Welfare economics; Public welfare administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The "mixed economy of welfare" and the historiography of welfare provision / Bernard Harris and Paul Bridgen; title: Charity and poor relief in England and Wales, circa 1750-1914 / Bernard Harris; title: The mixed moral economy of welfare : European perspectives / Thomas H. Adams; title: Supporting self-help : charity, mutuality, and reciprocity in nineteenth-century Britain / Daniel Weinbren; title: Historical welfare economics in the nineteenth century : mutual aid and private insurance for burial, sickness, old age, widowhood, and unemployment in the Netherlands / Marco H.D. van Leeuwen; title: Welfare-state formation in Scandinavia : the political significance of third-sector organisations for the emergence of sickness-insurance programs in Norway and Sweden / Peter Johansson; title: Housing charities and the provision of social housing in Germany and the United States of America, Great Britain, and Canada in the nineteenth century / Thomas Adam "New alignments" : American voluntarism and the expansion of welfare in the 1920s / Andrew Morris; title: Voluntary failure, the middle classes and the nationalisation of the British voluntary hospitals, 1900-1946 / Paul Bridgen.