Family Welfare: Gender, Property, and Inheritance Since the Seventeenth Century (Contributions in Family Studies) - Hardcover

 
9780313323287: Family Welfare: Gender, Property, and Inheritance Since the Seventeenth Century (Contributions in Family Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0313323283 ISBN 13: 9780313323287
Verlag: Praeger, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

The history of welfare provision has generally focused on the rise of the so-called welfare state and institutional provision for the poor. Recent studies have begun to look beyond the state to other ways in which assistance, care, and support were provided in the past, but the focus remains primarily on the poor. This work widens our understanding of welfare by focusing not on the poor but on those who have some wealth. It draws attention to the importance of family as part of a mixed economy of welfare provision that also incorporates the state, the market, and the voluntary sector.

This book offers an exciting new approach to the history of welfare by focusing attention on the complex range of sources of support drawn on to meet family needs. The chapters highlight the significance of the family as a link in in the provision of assistance. They also focus on the role played by gender relations in shaping welfare strategies. An extensive introduction is followed by ten chapters presenting detailed studies of the provision of family welfare across western Europe and the United States over the past four hundred years.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

DAVID R. GREEN is a Senior Lecturer in Geography at King's College London. For the past five years he has been editor of the London Journal and has published widely in urban history.

ALASTAIR OWENS is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.

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Verlag
Praeger
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0313323283
ISBN 13 
9780313323287
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Green David R., Owens Alastair
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