Screen LibraryWelfare peripheries：the development of welfare states in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Peter Lang,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 267 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9783039101764 3039101765 |
| Index Number: | F061 |
| CLC: |
F061.4-09 D750.7-09 |
| Call Number: | D750.7-09/W445 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index. Welfare peripheries in modern Europe / Steven King and John Stewart -- The peculiarities of the Dutch : social security in the Netherlands / Chris Nottingham and Piet de Rooy -- Welfare and nationality : the poor laws in nineteenth-century Ireland / Virginia Crossman -- Poor relief and welfare legislation in Norway, 1814-1920 / Åsmund Arup Seip -- Unemployment and poor relief in the west of Scotland, 1870-1900 / Andreas Gestrich and John Stewart -- Shake, rattle and roll! From charity to social rights in the Danish welfare state 1890-1933 / Jørn Henrik Petersen and Klaus Petersen -- Urbanisation and social welfare in Wales, Scotland and Ireland / Neil Evans -- Changing patterns of welfare : Finland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Pirjo Markkola. This volume investigates the development of welfare structures in the peripheral states of Europe. Focusing on Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Finland, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway, it explores what the welfare systems shared in common with each other and where the experiences of these states differed from other European welfare structures. |