Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire
Author : Margaret Cook Andersen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 3031260244
Disintegrating Empire
Author : Elise Franklin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2024-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1496240707
Book Description
Disintegrating Empire examines the entangled histories of three threads of decolonization: the French welfare state, family migration from Algeria, and the French social workers who mediated between the state and their Algerian clients. After World War II, social work teams, midlevel bureaucrats, and government ministries stitched specialized social services for Algerians into the structure of the midcentury welfare state. Once the Algerian Revolution began in 1954, many successive administrations and eventually two independent states—France and Algeria—continuously tailored welfare to support social aid services for Algerian families migrating across the Mediterranean. Disintegrating Empire reveals the belated collapse of specialized services more than a decade after Algerian independence. The welfare state’s story, Elise Franklin argues, was not one merely of rise and fall but of winnowing services to “deserving” clients. Defunding social services—long associated with the neoliberal turn in the 1980s and beyond—has a much longer history defined by exacting controls on colonial citizens and migrants of newly independent countries. Disintegrating Empire explores the dynamic, conflicting, and often messy nature of these relationships, which show how Algerian family migration prompted by decolonization ultimately exposed the limits of the French welfare state.
Making Space
Author : Melissa K. Byrnes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 080329073X
Book Description
Melissa Byrnes explores the ways local communities in the French suburbs reacted to the growing presence of North African migrants in the decades after World War II and the decolonization of Algeria.
Social Dynamics of Adolescent Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309048974
Book Description
This examination of changes in adolescent fertility emphasizes the changing social context within which adolescent childbearing takes place.
European Demography and Economic Growth
Author : W. R. Lee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000385418
Book Description
First published in 1979, European Demography and Economic Growth presents a collection of essays on the demographic development of individual European economies like Austria, Hungary, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal etc. It provides a comparative analysis to clarify many crucial issues connected with the growth in European population from mid-eighteenth century. It looks at the suitable criteria for assessing the applicability of general theory to the experience of individual nations. It showcases the over-riding contrast between substantial economic variations on a national and regional level and the existence of common underlying demographic trends. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of economic history, political economy, European history, population geography and economics in general.
Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France
Author : Suzanne Desan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0271047720
Book Description
Family Questions
Author : Allan Carlson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 15,30 MB
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412823425
Book Description
Drawing upon evidence from different fields, Carlson offers a number of provocative explanations to the American crisis in the family. In his search for a solution he borrows from a number of traditions---conservatism, feminism, socialism, and Marxism.
Origins of the French Welfare State
Author : Paul V. Dutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 21,59 MB
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1139432966
Book Description
This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in English, or French, which offers a deeply-researched explanation of how France's welfare state came to be and why the French are so attached to it. The author argues that France simultaneously pursued two different paths toward universal social protection. Family welfare embraced an industrial model in which class distinctions and employer control predominated. By contrast, protection against the risks of illness, disability, maternity, and old age followed a mutual aid model of welfare. The book examines a remarkably broad cast of actors that includes workers' unions, employers, mutual leaders, the parliamentary elite, haut fonctionnaires, doctors, pronatalists, women's organizations - both social Catholic and feminist - and diverse peasant organisations. It also traces foreign influences on French social reform, particularly from Germany's former territories in Alsace-Lorraine and Britain's Beveridge Plan.
Colonialism and Welfare
Author : James Midgley
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,79 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 184980849X
Book Description
The British Empire is part covered three centuries, five continents and onequarter of the world's population. Its legacy continues, shaping the societies and welfare policies of much of the modern world. In this book, for the first time, this legacy is explored and analysed. Colonialism and Welfare reveals that social welfare policies, often discriminatory, and challenging to those colonised were introduced and imposed by the ?mother country.' It highlights that there was great diversity in rationales and impacts across the empire, but past developments had a major impact on the development of much of the world's population. Contributions from every continent explore both the diversity and the common themes in the imperial experience. They examine the legacy of colonial welfare - a subject largely neglected by both historians of empire and social policy analysts. This original book shows that social welfare today cannot be understood without understanding the legacy of the British Empire. Academics, specialised students with an interest in comparative social policy, history of social policy, imperial history, colonialism, and contemporary third world social policy will find this book invaluable to their studies.
Childlessness in Europe: Contexts, Causes, and Consequences
Author : Michaela Kreyenfeld
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319446673
Book Description
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region.The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Finland, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland. An additional chapter on childlessness in the United States puts the European experience in perspective. The book offers readers such insights as the determinants of lifelong childlessness, whether governments can and should counteract increasing childlessness, how the phenomenon differs across social strata and the role economic uncertainties play. In addition, the book also examines life course dynamics and biographical patterns, assisted reproduction as well as the consequences of childlessness. Childlessness has been increasing rapidly in most European countries in recent decades. This book offers readers expert analysis into this issue from leading experts in the field of family behavior. From causes to consequences, it explores the many facets of childlessness throughout Europe to present a comprehensive portrait of this important demographic and sociological trend.
