TY - BOOK ID - 117530249 TI - Rescuing the Vulnerable AU - Althammer, Beate AU - Brandes, Katharina AU - Cusack, Andrew AU - Gestrich, Andreas AU - Guggisberg, Ernst AU - Heinisch, Daniela AU - Jahn, Hubertus AU - Kind-Kovács, Frederike AU - Lürbke, Dorothee AU - Roman, Nicoleta AU - Sasson, Tehila AU - Scott, Elizabeth A AU - Stazic-Wendt, Tamara AU - Vana, Irina AU - Wiede, Wiebke AU - Paugam, Serge PY - 2016 SN - 9781785331374 9781785331367 178533137X 1785331361 PB - New York Oxford DB - UniCat KW - Public welfare KW - Poor KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Poverty KW - Benevolent institutions KW - Poor relief KW - Public assistance KW - Public charities KW - Public relief KW - Public welfare reform KW - Relief (Aid) KW - Social welfare KW - Welfare (Public assistance) KW - Welfare reform KW - Human services KW - Social service KW - History KW - Economic conditions KW - Government policy KW - Europe KW - Social conditions. KW - Social policy. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:117530249 AB - In many ways, the European welfare state constituted a response to the new forms of social fracture and economic turbulence that were born out of industrialization--challenges that were particularly acute for groups whose integration into society seemed the most tenuous. Covering a range of national cases, this volume explores the relationship of weak social ties to poverty and how ideas about this relationship informed welfare policies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on three representative populations--neglected children, the homeless, and the unemployed--it provides a rich, comparative consideration of the shifting perceptions, representations, and lived experiences of social vulnerability in modern Europe. ER -