The Welfare State and the 'Deviant Poor' in Europe, 1870-1933

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Poverty and Deviance in the Era of the Emerging Welfare State

   1. Introduction: Poverty and Deviance in the Era of the Emerging Welfare State

      • Beate Althammer

      Pages 1-17

3. From Moral to Social Causes? Shifting Conceptions and Perceptions of Poverty

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Poverty in Transnational Discourses: Social Reformers’ Debates in Germany and the Netherlands around 1900

      • Christina May

      Pages 21-41

   3. ‘A Gigantic System of Casual Pauperism’: The Contested Role of the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth-Century Belfast

      • Olwen Purdue

      Pages 42-57

   4. The Duty to Provide: Fathers, Families and the Workhouse in England, 1880–1914

      • Megan Doolittle

      Pages 58-77

   5. The ‘New Morocco’ Settlement between Trier and Euren, Germany: Drawing Boundaries and Constructing Deviance, 1925–1933

      • Tamara Stazic-Wendt

      Pages 78-100

4. On the Borderline: The Vagrant Poor Between Destitution and Delinquency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101

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   2. Transnational Expert Discourse on Vagrancy around 1900

      • Beate Althammer

      Pages 103-125

   3. The Usual Suspects: Begging and Law Enforcement in Interwar Austria

      • Sigrid Wadauer

      Pages 126-149

   4. The Bodelschwingh Initiative: A Transcontinental Examination of German Protestant Welfare, 1880–1933

      • Edward N. Snyder

      Pages 150-171

5. Beyond the Borderline: The Mentally Deficient and the Criminal

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. ‘Degeneracy’ and ‘Moral Imbecility’: Local Implementation of Medical Discourses on Deviancy in Scottish Poor Relief Administration

      • Jens Gründler

      Pages 175-190

   3. Convicts in the Shadow of the Rising German Welfare State: Between Permanent Detention and Rehabilitation

      • Désirée Schauz

      Pages 191-209

6. Conclusions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Conclusion

      • Jens Gründler, Andreas Gestrich

      Pages 213-223

7. Back Matter

   Pages 224-277

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The strife for social improvement that arose in the decades around the turn of the 20th century raised the issue of social conformity in new ways: how were citizens who did not adhere to the rules to be dealt with? This edited collection opens new perspectives on the history of the emerging welfare state by focusing on its margins.

• Poverty
• Vagrancy
• Crime
• Mental Illness
• Deviance
• Marginality
• Social Exclusion
• History 1870-1933
• 20th century
• Austria
• England
• Europe
• Familie
• Germany
• history
• law
• poverty
• reform

• Universität Trier, Germany

  Beate Althammer

• German Historical Institute London, UK

  Andreas Gestrich

• Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, Germany

  Jens Gründler

Megan Doolittle, Open University, UK Christina May, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen, Germany Olwen Purdue, Queen's University, UK Désirée Schauz, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, Germany Edward N Snyder, St. Olaf College, USA Tamara Stazic-Wendt, Collaborative Research Centre 600, Germany Sigrid Wadauer, Vienna University, Austria

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