Subsidies to the Rescue. The funding of poor relief in Flemish village communities during the crisis of the 1840s, a comparative analysis
This article questions changes in the funding of local poor relief during the 1845-1848 food crisis in Flemish village communities. This will be studied comparativelybetween three distinct regions in Flanders: inner-Flanders, coastal Flanders, and theWaasland. In all three regions it was local relief institutions that increased their financialcapacity in order to accommodate rising poverty, despite the long-term advanceof nationalized welfare in the background. However, considerable regional differentiationcould be detected in the nature and degree by which the funding strategies wereadapted.... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, Vol 15, Iss 4, Pp 5-32 (2019) |
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openjournals.nl
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Schlagwörter: | poor relief / financing / food crisis / nineteenth century / Flanders / Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform / HN1-995 / Economic history and conditions / HC10-1085 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26693875 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.1002 |