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Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500 - Reform Without End (Hardcover)
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Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500 - Reform Without End (Hardcover)
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Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in
Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social
welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and
Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need
has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century
through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with
dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and
motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of
action and responsibility. Across two authoritative volumes, Adams
reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers
have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience
locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding
of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated
throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a
social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council
of Europe in Lisbon in 2000. Volume 1, which focuses on the period
from 1500 to 1700, discusses the concepts of 'welfare' and
'tradition'. It looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with
merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly
modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected
the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic
productivity. Volume 2 examines 18th-century bienfaisance which
secularized a Christian humanist notion of beneficence, producing
new and sharply contested assertions of social citizenship. It goes
on to consider how national struggles to establish comprehensive
welfare states since the second half of the 19th century built on
the power of the vote as politicians, pushed by activists and
advised by experts, appealed to a growing class of industrial
workers. Lastly, it looks at how 20th-century welfare states
addressed aspirations for social citizenship while the
institutional framework for European economic cooperation came to
fruition
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