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 industrializationchallenges 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 populationsneglected children, the homeless, and the unemployedit provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe.
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Introduction: Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An IntroductionBeate Althammer and Tamara Stazic-Wendt
Chapter 1. Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment RegimesSerge Paugam
PART I: ENDANGERED CHILDHOODS
Chapter 2. Living at the Edge of Society: Wallchian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century BucharestNicoleta Roman
Chapter 3. Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutons in Hamburg, 1892-1914Katharina Brandes
Chapter 4. The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children: Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesErnst Guggisberg
Chapter 5. Compassion for the Distant Other: Children's Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great WarFrederike Kind-Kovács
PART II: VAGRANCY AND HOMELESSNESS
Chapter 6. Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf's Response to Pauperism in theVormärzAndrew Cusack
Chapter 7. Controlling Vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880-1914Beate Althammer
Chapter 8. The Prolbem of Homelessness in Postwar BritainTehila Sasson
PART III: UNEMPLOYMENT
Chapter 9. 'United Idle Men with Idle Land': The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905-1908Elizabeth A. Scott
Chapter 10. An Unbearable Social Existence: The Unemployed in Rural Poor Relief (Germany, 1918-1933)Tamara Stazic-Wendt
Chapter 11. How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938Irina Vana
Chapter 12. The Poor Unemployed: Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980sWiebke Wiede
PART IV: RE-ESTABLISHING SOCIAL TIES: NARRATIVES AND APPEALS FROM THE POOR
Chapter 13. Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in Their Own WordsHubertus Jahn
Chapter 14. 'They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat': Old Age Poverty in German and British Pauper NarrativesAndreas Gestrich and Daniela Heinisch
Chapter 15. Seen With Their Own Eyes: Self-Presentation of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950-1975Dorothee Lürbke
Conclusion: The Twisted Paths of Recognition and Protection: Vulnerability and Welfare in European SocietiesLutz Raphael
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