Overview
- Reassesses the role of the state and private business as funders and providers of social welfare in interwar Europe
- Provides a comparative overview of the ‘mixed economy of welfare’ in relation to social marginals
- Highlights why and how the interwar period was crucial in reshaping the boundaries of social aid in Europe
Part of the book series: New Directions in Welfare History (NDWH)
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About this book
This book investigates the mixed economy of welfare that took care of the assistance of socially marginalised people in interwar Europe: namely, the state; local authorities; and a combination of voluntary and informal actors. While literature has traditionally emphasised the key role of the state, the cooperation between public authorities and private actors has always been a staple of social policy in Europe over the long run. The interwar years prominently featured these entanglements between the increased public sphere of action and the voluntary sector. Focusing on three thematic areas: warfare and its effects; boundaries of aid and institutional segregation; and gender and religion, the authors present case studies from various European countries between 1919 and 1939. All contributions explore the variegated world that composed the so-called mixed economy of welfare. By shifting the emphasis to the collaborations, frictions, and interactions among social marginals, non-stateactors, and public authorities on a local, national, and transnational level, the book challenges too simplistic distinctions between public and private initiatives and reveals the cultural, political, and practical common traits that featured in European care for marginals across a variety of geographical variations and socio-political contexts.
Keywords
- Social Marginalisation
- Social Policy
- Voluntary Action
- Interwar Europe
- Comparative History
- Warfare
- Refugee
- Orphan
- Poverty
- Social Aid
- Welfare History
- Voluntary Aid
- Marginalisation
- Minorities
- Welfare State
- Social Integration
- Institutional Segregation
- Mental Health
- Gender
- Religion
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michele Mioni is Research Associate at the Centre d’Histoire Sociale des Mondes Contemporains (CHS), at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in France. His research interests include the history of social policy in Western Europe, with a focus on the links between state policy and the voluntary sector, warfare-to-welfare theories ,and the history of trade unions in France and Italy.
Stefano Petrungaro is Associate Professor of History of Eastern Europe at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Italy. His research interests include social marginality and labor in Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on Yugoslavia and the Balkans; the cultural and social history of the late-Habsburg Empire; and the history of violence and its public memory in twentieth-century South-Eastern Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Caring for the Socially Marginalised in Interwar Europe, 1919–1939
Book Subtitle: The Mixed Economy of Welfare
Editors: Michele Mioni, Stefano Petrungaro
Series Title: New Directions in Welfare History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53344-0Due: 01 December 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53347-1Due: 01 December 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53345-7Due: 01 December 2024
Series ISSN: 2730-7662
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7670
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 290
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations