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Rescuing the Vulnerable : Poverty, Welfare and Social Ties in Modern Europe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Studies in Social History SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (438 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785331374
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rescuing the VulnerableDDC classification:
  • 362.5094
LOC classification:
  • HV238 .R4695 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Series Page -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Poverty and Social Bonds -- Part I: Endangered Childhoods -- Chapter 2: Living at the Edge of Society -- Chapter 3: Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? -- Chapter 4: The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children -- Chapter 5: Compassion for the Distant Other -- Part II: Vagrancy and Homelessness -- Chapter 6: Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis -- Chapter 7: Controlling Vagrancy -- Chapter 8: The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain -- Part III: Unemployment -- Chapter 9: 'Unite Idle Men with Idle Land' -- Chapter 10: An Unbearable Social Existence -- Chapter 11: How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938 -- Chapter 12: The Poor Unemployed -- Part IV: Re-establishing Social Ties -- Chapter 13: Voices from the Lower Depths -- Chapter 14: 'They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat' -- Chapter 15: Seen with Their Own Eyes -- Conclusion -- Index.
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Intro -- Series Page -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Poverty and Social Bonds -- Part I: Endangered Childhoods -- Chapter 2: Living at the Edge of Society -- Chapter 3: Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? -- Chapter 4: The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children -- Chapter 5: Compassion for the Distant Other -- Part II: Vagrancy and Homelessness -- Chapter 6: Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis -- Chapter 7: Controlling Vagrancy -- Chapter 8: The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain -- Part III: Unemployment -- Chapter 9: 'Unite Idle Men with Idle Land' -- Chapter 10: An Unbearable Social Existence -- Chapter 11: How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918-1938 -- Chapter 12: The Poor Unemployed -- Part IV: Re-establishing Social Ties -- Chapter 13: Voices from the Lower Depths -- Chapter 14: 'They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat' -- Chapter 15: Seen with Their Own Eyes -- Conclusion -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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