Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800

VIII, 250 S.

Routledge studies in modern British history. - New York, NY : Routledge, ZDB-ID 2146992-1. - Vol. 4

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Enth. 9 Beitr.

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

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