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This edited volume examines the effects of the two world wars on the welfare systems of European societies. Chapters analyse the dynamics between states and transnational social actors, including international institutions, voluntary associations, charities, foundations, non-governmental organisations, and advocacy groups. A key focus is on the relations between local, national, European, and trans-Atlantic spheres of action. Thereby, this volume offers a novel examination of the temporal boundaries between wartime and peacetime social policies, investigating when the military mobilisations that drove social welfare came to an end. Offering an alternative history of how European societies experienced and emerged from the two world wars, this book reinterprets the connections between warfare and welfare as they contributed to a new postwar order the legacies of which continue to influence contemporary welfare systems today.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
When Welfare Met Warfare: Actors, Timeframes and Spaces in Twentieth Century Europe.- Action, not Charity. Unemployment Relief under Military Occupation in Belgium, 1914-1918.- Feeding the Children on the Eastern Front. Voluntary Associations and Globalization of Welfare in the Polish Town of Lódz (1914-1922).- The Boche Eagle Will Be Defeated. Tuberculosis Must Be Too : National and International
Mobilisations against the TB in France (1914-1926).- Economic Persecution, War Damages Abroad, and Right to Compensation: The Case of the German Enemy Aliens (1914-1933).- Postwar Internationalism in Welfare: East Central European Actors at ILOs Disabled Branch (1919-1933).- War and Peace, and INGOs: 1914-1945.-The International Red Cross and German Prisoners in France (1944-1948): Humanitarian Intervention in Total Defeat.- UNRRA Italian Mission and the Reforms of Health and Welfare in Italy, 1944-1947.- A United Front of the Catholic Charity : The International Role of the Pontificia Commissione di Assistenza.- Czechoslovak Medical Personnel during WWII and Its Transnational Legacy in the Postwar Era.- Reactions to Totalitarianism: Paradigm Shifts in European Welfare Organizations, 1914-1950.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Michele Mioni is Postdoctoral Researcher at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and associate member of the Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Fabien Théofilakis is Assistant Professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a member of the Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains. Since 2024, he has been the French Deputy Director of the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin).
Simon Unger is based at the German Historical Institute in Rome. He was a Visiting Professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and currently teaches at the University of Fribour.
Zusammenfassung
This edited volume examines the effects of the two world wars on the welfare systems of European societies. Chapters analyse the dynamics between states and transnational social actors, including international institutions, voluntary associations, charities, foundations, non-governmental organisations, and advocacy groups. A key focus is on the relations between local, national, European, and trans-Atlantic spheres of action. Thereby, this volume offers a novel examination of the temporal boundaries between wartime and peacetime social policies, investigating when the military mobilisations that drove social welfare came to an end. Offering an alternative history of how European societies experienced and emerged from the two world wars, this book reinterprets the connections between warfare and welfare as they contributed to a new postwar order—the legacies of which continue to influence contemporary welfare systems today.
