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"Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. Using a transnational approach, this book provides the first historical account of the evolution of social justice across Europe during the twentieth century, and explores the divergent ways different groups have understood and sought to achieve social justice"--
List of contents
1. Social justice: a historical introduction Martin Conway and Camilo Erlichman; 2. Social justice within a market society: the debate in Western Europe from the end of the 19th century Ido De Haan; 3. Catholic conceptions of social justice from 1891 to Pope Francis Rachel Johnston-White; 4. Social justice through taxation? taxing the rich in Belgium in the 1920s Simon Watteyne; 5. A fascist social justice? hierarchy, order and equity in Southern European corporatism Pedro Ramos Pinto; 6. Social justice in authoritarian central Europe: Czechoslovakia under nazism and communism Radka Šustrová; 7. Social justice in a socialist society: understandings of social justice and social policy in hungary after 1945 Sándor Horváth; 8. Immigrants and social justice in Western Europe since the 1960s Daniel Gordon; 9. Re-imagining peace through social justice in mid-late twentieth-century Europe Simon Reid-Henry; 10. Social justice or sexual justice? social justice and the problem of women in twentieth-century Europe Celia Donert; 11. Equity rules: social justice on the ruins of socialism Adrian Grama; 12. Bridging the void: social justice in the history of the European Union Kiran Klaus Patel; 13. Postscript Samuel Moyn; Index.
About the author
Martin Conway is Professor of Contemporary European History at Oxford. He is the author of a number of works, including Western Europe's Democratic Age 1945–68 (Princeton University Press, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Académie Royale de Belgique. His next project is on political masculinity in Twentieth-Century Europe.Camilo Erlichman is Assistant Professor in History at Maastricht University, where he heads the interdisciplinary research cluster Democracy in Europe: Past and Present. His doctoral thesis won the British International History Group Prize, and he has published on the history of mid-twentieth century Europe. He is now working on a project on the history of property.
