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 history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
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 Adams; title: Supporting self-help : charity, mutuality, and reciprocity in nineteenth-century Britain / Daniel Weinbren; title: Historical welfare economics from the old regime to the welfare state :   mutual aid and private insurance for burial, sickness, old age, widowhood and unemployment in the Netherlands during the nineteenth century / Marco van Leeuwen; title: Welfare state formation in Scandinavia : the political significance of third-sector organisations for the emergence of sickness-insurance programmes 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; title: 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.