| Descript |
viii, 250 p. ; 24 cm |
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Routledge studies in modern British history ; 4 |
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Routledge studies in modern British history ; 4
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| Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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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 |
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Public welfare -- History
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Welfare economics
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Public welfare administration
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| Alt Author |
Harris, Bernard, 1961-
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Bridgen, Paul
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