Italy's Social Revolution Charity and Welfare from Liberalism to Fascism

by Quine, Maria Sophia

• ISBN13: 9780333632611
• ISBN10: 0333632613
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-20
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The study of welfare can illuminate debate about many themes in modern Italian history - the question of the success or failure of nation-building, the question of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the state, the question of continuity and discontinuity from liberalism to fascism, and the question of the actual impact of fascist rule on Italian society. This book aims to contribute to scholarship on the social history of modern Italy by examining welfare thinking and policies from the nineteenth century to the fascist period.

Author Biography

Maria Sophia Quine is Lecturer in Modern European History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Social Mission of Nineteenth-Century Liberalism

Introduction: The Old Charitable Order and Promise of Good Government

Reform and the Risorgimento

State and Society in Liberal Italy, 1862-1890

Part II: Social Welfare in the Age of the Masses

The Rise of Giolitti's 'Insurer State'

Fascism's New Deal: Social Insurance under a 'Totalitarian' State

Racial Regeneration through Welfare: The National Organization for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy

Part III: The Problem of Child Abandonment from Liberalism to Fascism

Introduction: Charity, the State, and Compassion: The Modernization of Social Values

Outcast Infants and the Liberal State

Religion, Science, and Beneficence

The Illegitimacy Campaign under Fascism

From Public Beneficence to Public Welfare: The Roman Experiment, 1927-1938