Description |
1 online resource (viii, 250 pages) |
Series |
Routledge studies in modern British history ; 4 |
|
Routledge studies in modern British history ; 4.
|
Contents |
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 H. Adams -- Supporting self-help : charity, mutuality, and reciprocity in nineteenth-century Britain / Daniel Weinbren -- Historical welfare economics in the nineteenth century : mutual aid and private insurance for burial, sickness, old age, widowhood, and unemployment in the Netherlands / Marco H.D. van Leeuwen -- Welfare-state formation in Scandinavia : the political significance of third-sector organisations for the emergence of sickness-insurance programs 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 |
Summary |
This collection examines the variety of relationships between statutory and voluntary sectors, and considers two hundred and fifty years of welfare provision on an international scale |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Public welfare -- History
|
|
Welfare economics.
|
|
Public welfare administration.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Philanthropy & Charity.
|
|
Public welfare
|
|
Public welfare administration
|
|
Welfare economics
|
Genre/Form |
Electronic books
|
|
History
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
Author |
Harris, Bernard, 1961-
|
|
Bridgen, Paul.
|
ISBN |
9780203932407 |
|
0203932404 |
|
9780415365598 |
|
0415365597 |
|
9786611102210 |
|
6611102213 |
|