...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume which is about the history of living standards in Mexico during the period from 1850 to 1950. This volume is divided into two main sections. The first section traces the origins of poverty alleviation, including social welfare programs...

... of “types,” or the elimination of “defectives” by eugenics and social welfare. The chapter also considers the emergence of the national census, Wendell Cleland's The Population Problem in Egypt (1936), the social uplift of women (through maternal and child welfare programs...

... to the 1960s is part of a single historical bloc. It proposes an alternative framework, dubbed the “social-welfare mode of regulation,” for understanding the organization of the postcolonial Egyptian state and society. This social-welfare mode of regulation, underpinned by an economic system of etatism...

... massive amounts of revenues for the city (in the early 1920s, around 30% of municipal tax revenues), and also ultimately significant amounts for the province. The revenues were earmarked for statebuilding projects like roads and militias, for the funding of public education, and for social welfare...

... from Algeria Loire Frey Roger Jews Anti Semitism National Security Office French language instruction Radio Housing allowances Algerian War bidonvilles October 1961 massacre Constantine Plan Social Action Fund social welfare surveillance and repression in the spring of 1958...

...The twentieth century saw the emergence of the “peasant question” in Egypt as a discourse of social welfare and the reproduction of power relations. The reform of the Egyptian village and its inhabitants was a major concern within the discourse of social reform. Egyptian intellectuals often cited...

...This chapter focuses on social welfare institutions, societies, and associations that were established in Pinsk, Belarus during the period 1881–1914. In 1844, the kehillah (autonomous Jewish community administration) system was dissolved, eliminating the formal, legal leadership...

... and enduring utility. The performance of social welfare functions has been significant to the construction of native place community and to the authority that legitimated hierarchy within the community. Native place sentiment developed the possibility of a social network and of social assistance on the basis...

... Kidnapping Society brothel boats Poor Women’s Industrial School New Life Movement venereal disease adultery rickshaw pullers Italy clothing Wu Mengxi prostitute rescue police social welfare industrial schools in a world context, one of the unusual aspects of the late Qing and Republican...

...This chapter turns to a broader examination of social welfare as a means of facilitating the social and biological rejuvenation of German Jews. Following the war, the entire spectrum of religiously and politically defined welfare organizations viewed the welfare sector as a potential means...

...This chapter centers on the decision-making processes and the motives of initiators and joiners of three other-regarding groups—social welfare oriented, religiously oriented, and Marxist philosophy driven—in Pakistan. It attempts to create a theory that focuses on other-regarding groups...

... through an examination of the history of social welfare programs for Algerian migrants from the end of World War II until Algeria gained independence in 1962. First colonized in 1830, Algeria fought a bloody war of decolonization against France (1954-1962), as France fought to maintain control over its...