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1 Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment Regimes
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Serge Paugam
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations, Figures and Tables viii
- Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An Introduction 1
- 1 Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment Regimes 23
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I. ENDANGERED CHILDHOODS
- 2 Living at the Edge of Society: Wallachian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest 47
- 3 Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutions in Hamburg, 1892–1914 74
- 4 The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children: Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 97
- 5 Compassion for the Distant Other: Children’s Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War 129
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II. VAGRANCY AND HOMELESSNESS
- 6 Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf’s Response to Pauperism in the Vormärz 161
- 7 Controlling Vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880–1914 187
- 8 The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain 212
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III. UNEMPLOYMENT
- 9 ‘Unite Idle Men with Idle Land’: The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905–1908 235
- 10 An Unbearable Social Existence: The Unemployed in Rural Poor Relief (Germany, 1918–1933) 259
- 11 How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918–1938 283
- 12 The Poor Unemployed: Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s 307
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IV. RE-ESTABLISHING SOCIAL TIES: NARRATIVES AND APPEALS FROM THE POOR
- 13 Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in Their Own Words 333
- 14 ‘They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat’: Old Age Poverty in German and British Pauper Narratives 356
- 15 Seen with Their Own Eyes: Self-presentation of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950–1975 382
- Conclusion: The Twisted Paths of Recognition and Protection: Vulnerability and Welfare in European Societies 405
- Index 417
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations, Figures and Tables viii
- Poverty and Endangered Social Ties: An Introduction 1
- 1 Poverty and Social Bonds: Towards a Theory of Attachment Regimes 23
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I. ENDANGERED CHILDHOODS
- 2 Living at the Edge of Society: Wallachian Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Bucharest 47
- 3 Orphans, Pauper Children or Wayward Children? The Lives of Children Cared for by Public Institutions in Hamburg, 1892–1914 74
- 4 The Reduction of Poverty Starts with Children: Swiss Societies for Educating the Poor in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 97
- 5 Compassion for the Distant Other: Children’s Hunger and Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War 129
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II. VAGRANCY AND HOMELESSNESS
- 6 Traditional Mobility and Solidarity in Crisis: Jeremias Gotthelf’s Response to Pauperism in the Vormärz 161
- 7 Controlling Vagrancy: Germany, England and France, 1880–1914 187
- 8 The Problem of Homelessness in Post-war Britain 212
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III. UNEMPLOYMENT
- 9 ‘Unite Idle Men with Idle Land’: The Evolution of the Hollesley Bay Training Farm Experiment for the London Unemployed, 1905–1908 235
- 10 An Unbearable Social Existence: The Unemployed in Rural Poor Relief (Germany, 1918–1933) 259
- 11 How Unemployment was Normalized by the Establishment of Public Labour Exchanges in Austria, 1918–1938 283
- 12 The Poor Unemployed: Diagnoses of Unemployment in Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s 307
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IV. RE-ESTABLISHING SOCIAL TIES: NARRATIVES AND APPEALS FROM THE POOR
- 13 Voices from the Lower Depths: Russian Poor in Their Own Words 333
- 14 ‘They Sit for Days and Have Only Their Sorrow to Eat’: Old Age Poverty in German and British Pauper Narratives 356
- 15 Seen with Their Own Eyes: Self-presentation of the Poor in Freiburg and Schwerin, 1950–1975 382
- Conclusion: The Twisted Paths of Recognition and Protection: Vulnerability and Welfare in European Societies 405
- Index 417
