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Laura Lee DOWNS, Clarisse BERTHEZÈNE, Dominika GRUZIEL, Efi AVDELA and Dimitra LAMPROPOULOU (eds), Mobilizing for welfare in Europe : the unpolitical politics of social action, 1870s-1990s. A document reader, London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, pp. 1-20
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DOWNS, Laura Lee, BERTHEZÈNE, Clarisse, GRUZIEL, Dominika, AVDELA, Efi, LAMPROPOULOU, Dimitra, Introduction, in Laura Lee DOWNS, Clarisse BERTHEZÈNE, Dominika GRUZIEL, Efi AVDELA and Dimitra LAMPROPOULOU (eds), Mobilizing for welfare in Europe : the unpolitical politics of social action, 1870s-1990s. A document reader, London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025, pp. 1-20, [SOCIOBORD] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92937
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The question of how Europeans have organized to address issues of welfare and social care is one that has by no means exhausted its interest. On the contrary, contemporary political debates around reforms that have rendered the scope and coverage of European welfare systems ever more miserly suggest that exploring Europe’s many and diverse mobilizations around welfare is more relevant than ever. While the timing and precise targets of welfare cuts have varied from one country to the next, the trajectories each has followed, from wide coverage to increasingly threadbare social safety nets, are depressingly similar: the ongoing privatization of formerly public services and the ever more important role played by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and for-profit health corporations in delivering those services; the devastating impact of the 2008 financial crisis and its durable consequences in the shape of the austerity budgets that were subsequently imposed, most notably on Greece; and the refugee crisis, which has struck especially hard in Mediterranean Europe and shows no signs of abating, due to widespread armed conflicts and the ever more deadly impact of climate change...
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Published online: 26 March 2025
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This research was supported by the project SOCIOBORD: 'Social Politics in European Borderlands. A Comparative and Transnational Study, 1870s-1990s' funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement 882549.