Overview
Social policy, as executed in western civilization, is apparently at a crossroads, with ""forgotten"" contradictions between the rich and the poor having once again become topical. The current economic and social crisis, including the crisis of the welfare state, raises the need to seek solutions from the past as well as the present. This volume brings together examples of social practice in the Central European region from the 19th century to the 1950s.
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Author: Milan Hlavačka ,
Václava Horčáková ,
Kristina Rexová
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9781443844970
ISBN 10: 1443844977
Pages: 465
Publication Date: 01 March 2017
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Format: Hardback
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Olga Fejtova is Head of the Department of Historic Collections and Deposits at Prague City Archives, Czech Republic, and is a Lecturer at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyne in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic. Her publications include two monographs dedicated to confessionalism, and she currently serves as co-editor of the journal Documenta Pragensia and as an organiser of the Prague City Archives' yearly conferences on urban history. Milan Hlavacka is a Professor of History at Charles University in Prague, and is a Scientific Fellow at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has published several monographs and numerous analytic studies, along with textbooks for secondary schools. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Cesky casopis historicky (Czech Historical Review) and Moderni dejiny (Modern History) and a foreign member of Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (the Austrian Academy of Sciences). Vaclava Horcakova is Head of the Department of Historical Bibliography at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. She is also the editor of the on-line database, periodical yearbooks, thematic bibliographies of the Bibliography of the History of the Czech Lands, the author of many articles on historical bibliography and the co-author of Scholars of Bohemian, Czech and Czechoslovak History Studies (2005). Veronika Knotkova works in one of the Prague City Archives' acquisition departments, and is a PhD student at the Institute of Economic and Social History at Charles University in Prague. She is interested in urban history, with a particular emphasis on the history of municipal bureaucracy, the history of education and municipal politics, and self-government in the 19th and 20th centuries, and has published several studies dedicated to these topics.
