Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Poverty and Deviance in the Era of the Emerging Welfare State; Beate Althammer PART I: FROM MORAL TO SOCIAL CAUSES? SHIFTING CONCEPTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF POVERTY 2. Poverty in Transnational Discourses: Social Reformers' Debates in Germany and the Netherlands around 1900; Christina May 3. 'A Gigantic System of Casual Pauperism': The Contested Role of the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth-Century Belfast; Olwen Purdue 4. The Duty to Provide: Fathers, Families and the Workhouse in England, 1880-1914; Megan Doolittle 5. The 'New Morocco' Settlement between Trier and Euren, Germany: Drawing Boundaries and Constructing Deviance, 1925-1933; Tamara Stazic-Wendt PART II: ON THE BORDERLINE: THE VAGRANT POOR BETWEEN DESTITUTION AND DELINQUENCY 6. Transnational Expert Discourse on Vagrancy around 1900; Beate Althammer 7. The Usual Suspects: Begging and Law Enforcement in Interwar Austria; Sigrid Wadauer 8. The Bodelschwingh Initiative: A Transcontinental Examination of German Protestant Welfare, 1880-1933; Edward Snyder PART III: BEYOND THE BORDERLINE: THE MENTALLY DEFICIENT AND THE CRIMINAL 9. 'Degeneracy' and 'Moral Imbecility': Local Implementation of Medical Discourses on Deviancy in Scottish Poor Relief Administration; Jens Gründler 10. Convicts in the Shadow of the Rising Welfare State: Between Permanent Detention and Rehabilitation; Desirée Schauz PART IV: CONCLUSIONS 11. Conclusion; Jens Gründler and Andreas Gestrich

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Megan Doolittle, Open University, UK Christina May, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen, Germany Olwen Purdue, Queen's University, UK Désirée Schauz, Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology, Germany Edward N Snyder, St. Olaf College, USA Tamara Stazic-Wendt, Collaborative Research Centre 600, Germany Sigrid Wadauer, Vienna University, Austria