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

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

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

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

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

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

Chapter 6 Transnational Expert Discourse on Vagrancy around 1900

Chapter 7 The Usual Suspects: Begging and Law Enforcement in Interwar Austria

Chapter 8 The Bodelschwingh Initiative: A Transcontinental Examination of German Protestant Welfare, 1880–1933

Chapter 9 ‘Degeneracy’ and ‘Moral Imbecility’: Local Implementation of Medical Discourses on Deviancy in Scottish Poor Relief Administration

Chapter 10 Convicts in the Shadow of the Rising German Welfare State: Between Permanent Detention and Rehabilitation