Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe and North America since 1800

ISBN-13: 9780415365598 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 250 str.

Bridgen Paul; Paul Bridgen; Bernard Harris

Opis

This collection examines the relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in a variety of national settings, including Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Canada and Germany during the last two hundred and fifty years.

International in perspective, this is the first book to examine the variety of relationships between the statutory and voluntary sectors in Europe and America. An impressive list of contributors come together to investigate the issue of provision and its history in various geographical areas, and to create a book as topical as it is significant.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: the ‘mixed economy of welfare’ and the historiography of welfare provision, Bernard Harris and Paul Bridgen  2. Charity and poor relief in England and Wales, circa 1750-1914, Bernard Harris  3. The mixed moral economy of welfare: European perspectives, Thomas Adams  4. Supporting self-help: charity, mutuality and reciprocity in nineteenth-century Britain, Daniel Weinbren  5. 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  6. 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  7. 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  8. ‘New alignments’: American voluntarism and the expansion of welfare in the 1920s, Andrew Morris  9. Voluntary failure, the middle classes and the nationalisation of the British voluntary hospitals, 1900-1946, Paul Bridgen.  Contributors.  Index