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 comparatively between three distinct regions in Flanders: inner-Flanders, coastal Flanders, and the Waasland. In all three regions it was local relief institutions that increased their financial capacity in order to accommodate rising poverty, despite the long-term advance of nationalized welfare in the background. However, considerable regional differentiation could be detected in the nature and degree by which the funding strategies were ada... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | journalarticle |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Schlagwörter: | History and Archaeology / poor relief / financing / food crisis / nineteenth century / Flanders |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26697516 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8609094 |