Introduction: Entitlement in Historical Context -- Revealing the 'social consequences of unemployment' -- Charity, Relief and Localism in Depression-era Chicago -- Charity and Entitlement -- Entitled to Relief -- Getting Relief from the Government -- Epilogue: Entitled to Relief…
"Published ten years after the first edition, this new handbook offers topical, and comprehensive information on the welfare systems of all twenty-eight EU member states and their recent reforms, giving the reader an invaluable introduction and basis for comparative welfare rese…
Montre que l'automne 2010 a vu croître un des plus impressionnants mouvements sociaux depuis Mai 68 en France. Analyse ce mouvement et tente "à chaud" de le resituer dans une perspective longue, celles des luttes sociales et des mouvements de contestation du néolibéralisme, de l…
"This look at Wilhelmine perceptions of modernity challenges both the traditional emphasis on anti-modernism as a peculiarly German response that led to the rise of National Socialism, and the more recent post-Foucauldian studies on the "pathologies of modernity," which point in…
Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1. THE WELFARE STATE RUNS AGROUND -- Chapter 2. THE SOCIAL PROGRESS OF NATIONS -- Chapter 3. FROM "YELLOW PERIL" TO MODEL MINORITY -- Chapter 4. THE CASE OF THE PREGNANT BALLERINA -- Chapter 5. KNOWLEDGE SQUARED -- Chapter 6. DEMONARCO…
This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting in the first instance five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), it offers an account of r…
The Great Reforms undertaken during the reign of Alexander II represented a unique attempt by the tsarist government to restructure virtually every aspect of Russian life, beginning with the emancipation of the serfs and continuing through reforms of local government, the judici…
"In American Abyss, Daniel E. Bender examines an array of sources -- eugenics theories, scientific studies of climate, socialist theory, and even popular novels about cavemen -- to show how intellectuals and activists came to understand industrialization in racial and gendered t…
