ISBN:
1-009-37082-0
,
1-009-37086-3
,
1-009-37083-9
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
DDC:
303.3/720940904
Keywords:
Social justice History 20th century.
Abstract:
Social justice has returned to the heart of political debate in present-day Europe. But what does it mean in different national histories and political regimes, and how has this changed over time? This book provides the first historical account of the evolution of notions of social justice across Europe since the late nineteenth century. Written by an international team of leading historians, the book analyses the often-divergent ways in which political movements, state institutions, intellectual groups, and social organisations have understood and sought to achieve social justice. Conceived as an emphatically European analysis covering both the eastern and western halves of the continent, Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe demonstrates that no political movement ever held exclusive ownership of the meaning of social justice. Conversely, its definition has always been strongly contested, between those who would define it in terms of equality of conditions, or of opportunity; the security provided by state authority, or the freedom of personal initiative; the individual rights of a liberal order, or the social solidarities of class, nation, confession, or Volk.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Social Justice: A Historical Introduction -- 2 Social Justice within a Market Society: The Debate in Western Europe from the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Introduction: How to Write a History of Social Justice? -- How to Write a History of the Market? -- Empowerment in the Age of the Social Question -- Productive Contribution in the Age of the Welfare State -- Entrepreneurial Investment in the Age of Neoliberalism -- Conclusion -- 3 Catholic Conceptions of Social Justice from 1891 to Pope Francis -- 'Organicist' and 'Radical' Social Justice -- Contesting the Vatican's Social Justice: Catholic Radical Alternatives -- 4 Social Justice through Taxation?: Taxing the Rich in Belgium in the 1920s -- ''Justice in Taxation'' -- Pragmatism in Taxation -- The 'Unfairness' of the Supertax -- Conclusion -- 5 A Fascist Social Justice?: Hierarchy, Order, and Equity in Southern European Corporatism -- Introduction -- Roots of Fascist 'Social Justice' -- A Functionalist Understanding of 'Social Justice' -- A Well-Ordered Society -- Pedagogy and Exclusion -- Conclusions -- 6 Social Justice in Authoritarian Central Europe: Czechoslovakia under Nazism and Communism -- Social Justice through Authoritarian Welfare -- National Welfare and Labour Relations -- Communist Ideals and the Limits of Social Equality -- Conclusion -- 7 Social Justice in a Socialist Society: Understandings of Social Justice and Social Policy in Hungary after 1945 -- Socialism: No Market, No Social Injustice, No Need for Social Policy -- A New Hope: Reinventing Social Policy and Social Justice -- The Return of the Notion of Social Justice in Housing Policy -- The Second Economy Strikes Back: The Competition between Socialism and Capitalism -- Conclusion: The Market Awakens.
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Immigrants and Social Justice in Western Europe since the 1960s -- 9 Reimagining Peace through Social Justice in Mid- to Late Twentieth-Century Europe -- Introduction -- Lineages: The Making of Positive Peace as a Discourse of Social Justice -- Legacies: The Outcomes of Positive Peace -- Conclusion -- 10 Social Justice or Sexual Justice?: Social Justice and the Problem of Women in Twentieth-Century Europe -- Social-Justice Feminism, Socialism, and Communism -- Social Justice, Sexual Justice, and the Post-War Welfare States -- Social Justice versus Sexual Justice? -- Conclusion -- 11 Equity Rules: Social Justice on the Ruins of Socialism -- Precedents in Popular Capitalism -- East European Variations -- Conclusion -- 12 Bridging the Void: Social Justice in the History of the European Union -- An Imported Model -- The Logic of the Common Market, 1950s to Early 1970s -- The Discreet Expansion of EC Activism, 1970s to Early 1990s -- Social Justice since the Early 1990s -- Conclusion -- 13 Postscript -- Index.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Feb 2024).
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