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

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.

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

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 industrialization-challenges 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 populations-neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed-it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe.