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1 online resource (ix, 427 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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International studies in social history ; volume 27
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International studies in social history ; v. 27.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Poverty and social bonds: towards a theory of attachment regimes / Serge Paugam -- Living at the edge of society: Wallachian orphans in nineteenth-century Bucharest / Nicoleta Roman -- Orphans, pauper children or wayward children? The lives of children cared for by public institutions in Hamburg, 1892-1914 / Katharina Brandes -- The reduction of poverty starts with children: Swiss societies for educating the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ernst Guggisberg -- Compassion for the distant other: children's hunger and humanitarian relief in the aftermath of the great war / Frederike Kind-Kovács -- Traditional mobility and solidarity in crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf's response to pauperism in the Vormärz, Andrew Cusack -- Controlling vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880-1914 / Beate Althammer -- The problem of homelessness in post-war Britain / Tehila Sasson -- 'Unite idle men with idle land': the evolution of the Hollesley Bay training farm experiment for the London unemployed, 1905-1908 / Elizabeth A. Scott -- An unbearable social existence: the unemployed in rural poor relief (Germany, 1918-1933) / Tamara Stazic-Wendt -- How unemployment was normalized by the establishment of public labour exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938 / Irina Vana -- The poor unemployed: diagnoses of unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s / Wiebke Wiede -- Voices from the lower depths: Russian poor in their own words / Hubertus Jahn -- 'They sit for days and have only their sorrow to eat': old age poverty in Germany and British pauper narratives / Andreas Gestrich and Daniela Heinisch -- Seen with their own eyes: self-presentation of the poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950-1975 / Dorothee Lürbke -- Conclusion: the twisted paths of recognition and protection: vulnerability and welfare in European societies / Lutz Raphael. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Public welfare -- Europe -- History.
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Public welfare. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Poor -- Europe -- History.
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Poor. |
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Europe -- Social conditions.
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Europe -- Social policy.
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Social conditions. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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Social policy. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Althammer, Beate, editor.
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Raphael, Lutz, 1955- editor.
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Stazic-Wendt, Tamara, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rescuing the vulnerable. New York : Berghahn Books, 2016 9781785331367 (DLC) 2015045611 (OCoLC)934382767 |
| ISBN |
9781785331374 (electronic book) |
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178533137X (electronic book) |
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9781785331367 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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1785331361 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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