Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figure
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Discipline, Community, and the Sixteenth-Century Origins of Modern Poor Relief
- 2 The Rise and Fall of the Workhouse: Poor Relief in the Age of Absolutism
- 3 Pauperism, Moral Reform, and Visions of Civil Society, 1800–1870
- 4 The State, the Market, and the Organization of Poor Relief, 1830–1870
- 5 The Assistantial Double Helix: Poor Relief, Social Insurance, and the Political Economy of Poor Law Reform
- 6 New Voices: Citizenship, Social Reform, and the Origins of Modern Social Work in Imperial Germany
- 7 The Social Perspective on Poverty and the Origins of Modern Social Welfare
- 8 From Fault to Risk: Changing Strategies of Assistance to the Jobless in Imperial Germany
- 9 Youth Welfare and the Political Alchemy of Juvenile Justice
- 10 The Social Evolution of Poor Relief, the Crisis of Voluntarism, and the Limits of Progressive Social Reform
- 11 Family, Welfare, and (Dis)order on the Home Front
- 12 Wartime Youth Welfare and the Progressive Refiguring of the Social Contract
- Conclusion: The End of Poor Relief and the Invention of Welfare
- Sources and Abbreviations
- Index
- References
1 - Discipline, Community, and the Sixteenth-Century Origins of Modern Poor Relief
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figure
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Discipline, Community, and the Sixteenth-Century Origins of Modern Poor Relief
- 2 The Rise and Fall of the Workhouse: Poor Relief in the Age of Absolutism
- 3 Pauperism, Moral Reform, and Visions of Civil Society, 1800–1870
- 4 The State, the Market, and the Organization of Poor Relief, 1830–1870
- 5 The Assistantial Double Helix: Poor Relief, Social Insurance, and the Political Economy of Poor Law Reform
- 6 New Voices: Citizenship, Social Reform, and the Origins of Modern Social Work in Imperial Germany
- 7 The Social Perspective on Poverty and the Origins of Modern Social Welfare
- 8 From Fault to Risk: Changing Strategies of Assistance to the Jobless in Imperial Germany
- 9 Youth Welfare and the Political Alchemy of Juvenile Justice
- 10 The Social Evolution of Poor Relief, the Crisis of Voluntarism, and the Limits of Progressive Social Reform
- 11 Family, Welfare, and (Dis)order on the Home Front
- 12 Wartime Youth Welfare and the Progressive Refiguring of the Social Contract
- Conclusion: The End of Poor Relief and the Invention of Welfare
- Sources and Abbreviations
- Index
- References
Summary
The history of poor relief in the Germanies is coextensive with that of the modern world. This history began in the second half of the 1400s with the desacralization of almsgiving and the subsequent emergence of begging and vagrancy as distinct social problems, and the attitudes toward poverty and the institutions that were established in the 1500s to relieve it defined the basic framework of assistance to the needy until the first decades of the twentieth century.
During the Middle Ages, material destitution was an unavoidable fact for a substantial proportion of the population; begging was an accepted way of holding body and soul together; charity for the poor played an essential role in the Christian economy of salvation; and beggars occupied a recognized, if subordinate, place in the complex skein of social hierarchies that made up the fabric of medieval society. However, things began to change after 1450 or so. The desacralization of almsgiving reflected a growing recognition that not all beggars could be considered the proper object of Christian charity. This new attitude meant that Christian charity would have to become more systematic and discriminating and that it would have to make greater efforts to distinguish between those who were truly deserving of charity and those who would simply be encouraged in their wicked ways by such assistance. It also meant that charity would become the object of public policy in ways that it had never been before.
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