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 |
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Leuven University Press
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Schlagwörter: | poor relief / financing / food crisis / nineteenth century / Flanders |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27477774 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://tseg.nl/article/view/8269 |