The Welfare State and the ‘Deviant Poor’ in Europe, 1870–1933

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Poverty and Deviance in the Era of the Emerging Welfare State....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Poverty in Transnational Discourses: Social Reformers’ Debates in Germany and the Netherlands around 1900....Pages 21-41
‘A Gigantic System of Casual Pauperism’: The Contested Role of the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth-Century Belfast....Pages 42-57
The Duty to Provide: Fathers, Families and the Workhouse in England, 1880–1914....Pages 58-77
The ‘New Morocco’ Settlement between Trier and Euren, Germany: Drawing Boundaries and Constructing Deviance, 1925–1933....Pages 78-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Transnational Expert Discourse on Vagrancy around 1900....Pages 103-125
The Usual Suspects: Begging and Law Enforcement in Interwar Austria....Pages 126-149
The Bodelschwingh Initiative: A Transcontinental Examination of German Protestant Welfare, 1880–1933....Pages 150-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
‘Degeneracy’ and ‘Moral Imbecility’: Local Implementation of Medical Discourses on Deviancy in Scottish Poor Relief Administration....Pages 175-190
Convicts in the Shadow of the Rising German Welfare State: Between Permanent Detention and Rehabilitation....Pages 191-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Conclusion....Pages 213-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-277