Charity and mutual aid in Europe and North America since 1800 / edited by Bernard Harris and Paul Bridgen.

"First published in 2008. First issued in paperback ed 2012".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: The "Mixed Economy of Welfare" and the Historiography of Welfare Provision / Bernard Harris and Paul Bridgen -- 2. Charity and Poor Relief in England and Wales, Circa 1750-1914 / Bernard Harris -- 3. The Mixed Moral Economy of Welfare: European Perspectives / Thomas M. Adams -- 4. Supporting Self-Help: Charity, Mutuality, and Reciprocity in Nineteenth-Century Britain / Daniel Weinbren -- 5. Historical Welfare Economics in the Nineteenth Century: Mutual Aid and Private Insurance for Burial, Sickness, Old Age, Widowhood, and Unemployment in the Netherlands / Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen -- 6. Welfare-State Formation in Scandinavia: The Political Significance of Third-Sector Organisations for the Emergence of Sickness-Insurance Programs in Norway and Sweden / Peter Johansson -- 7. Housing Charities and the Provision of Social Housing in Germany and the United States of America, Great Britain, and Canada in the Nineteenth Century / Thomas Adam -- 8. "New Alignments": American Voluntarism and the Expansion of Welfare in the 1920s / Andrew Morris -- 9. Voluntary Failure, the Middle Classes, and the Nationalisation of the British Voluntary Hospitals, 1900-1946 / Paul Bridgen.