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OverviewTracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility. Across two authoritative volumes, Adams reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council of Europe in Lisbon in 2000. Volume 1, which focuses on the period from 1500 to 1700, discusses the concepts of 'welfare' and 'tradition'. It looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic productivity. Volume 2 examines 18th-century bienfaisance which secularized a Christian humanist notion of beneficence, producing new and sharply contested assertions of social citizenship. It goes on to consider how national struggles to establish comprehensive welfare states since the second half of the 19th century built on the power of the vote as politicians, pushed by activists and advised by experts, appealed to a growing class of industrial workers. Lastly, it looks at how 20th-century welfare states addressed aspirations for social citizenship while the institutional framework for European economic cooperation came to fruition Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas McStay Adams (Independent Scholar, USA)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781350276284ISBN 10: 1350276286 Publication Date: 23 February 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Mixed media product Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsVolume I - 1500-1700 List of Illustrations Introduction Part 1 - Threshold of Modernity (to 1540) 1. Organizing Mercy in Southern Europe 2. Urban Charity and Humanism 3. Blueprints for Relief to the Deserving 4. The Passion for Reformation Part 2 - Discipline (1540 - 1700) 5. Charity in the Cauldron of Religious Conflict 6. Confronting Misery and War in France 7. The Paris Hopital General and its Offshoots 8. Elizabeth 43: The Making of the Old English Poor Law 9. Foundlings, Orphans, and Apprentices Conclusion Bibliography Index Volume II: 1700-2000 List of Illustrations Introduction Part 3 - 'The Grumbling Hive' (1700 - 1850) 10. France from Enlightenment to Revolution 11. A Social Republic Lost but not Forgotten 12. Poverty and Political Economy: England and Scotland 13. An Evolving Landscape for Welfare in German Lands 14. Reform from Above: Munich to Naples - How Enlightened? 15. Remodelling the Hive? Part 4 - Intertwined Trajectories: The European Social Model(s) (1850 - 2000) 16. From Social Insurance to Sozialstaat: From Bismarck to Merkel 17. Britain and the Five Giants 18. France: A Second Empire and Three Republics 19. Star(s) in the North 20. 'Fire in the Ashes': Aspirations for Post War Europe 21. European Social Policy: Coordination if not Unity Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationThomas McStay Adams is an independent scholar and a retired Senior Program Officer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA. He is the author of Bureaucrats and Beggars: French Social Policy in the Age of the Enlightenment (1990). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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