Italy’s Social Revolution: Charity and Welfare from Liberalism to Fascism

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Part I The Social Mission of Nineteenth- Century Liberalism......Page 18
Introduction: The Old Charitable Order and the Promise of Good Government......Page 20
1 Reform and the Risorgimento......Page 31
2 State and Society in Liberal Italy, 1862–1890......Page 53
Part II State Welfare in the Age of the Masses......Page 82
3 The Rise of Giolitti’s ‘Insurer State’......Page 84
4 Fascism’s New Deal: Social Insurance under a ‘Totalitarian’ State......Page 113
5 Racial Regeneration through Welfare: The National Organization for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy under Fascism......Page 146
Part III The Problem of Child Abandonment from Liberalism to Fascism......Page 190
Introduction: Charity, the State, and Compassion: The Modernization of Social Values......Page 192
6 Outcast Infants and the Liberal State......Page 200
7 Religion, Science, and Beneficence......Page 219
8 The Illegitimacy Campaign under Fascism......Page 246
9 From Public Beneficence to Public Welfare: The Roman Experiment, 1927–1938......Page 266
10 An Italian Social Revolution?......Page 306
Notes and references......Page 320
Bibliography......Page 383
Index......Page 406