Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Martin Conway, Camilo Erlichman, Martin (University of Oxford) Conway, Netherlands) Erlichman, Camilo (Universiteit Maastricht

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-04
Mått229 x 151 x 20 mm
Vikt431 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor294
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009370813

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Martin Conway is Professor of Contemporary European History at Oxford. He is the author of a number of works, including Western Europe's Democratic Age 1945–68 (Princeton University Press, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Académie Royale de Belgique. His next project is on political masculinity in Twentieth-Century Europe. Camilo Erlichman is Assistant Professor in History at Maastricht University, where he heads the interdisciplinary research cluster Democracy in Europe: Past and Present. His doctoral thesis won the British International History Group Prize, and he has published on the history of mid-twentieth century Europe. He is now working on a project on the history of property.

1. Social justice: a historical introduction Martin Conway and Camilo Erlichman; 2. Social justice within a market society: the debate in Western Europe from the end of the 19th century Ido De Haan; 3. Catholic conceptions of social justice from 1891 to Pope Francis Rachel Johnston-White; 4. Social justice through taxation? taxing the rich in Belgium in the 1920s Simon Watteyne; 5. A fascist social justice? hierarchy, order and equity in Southern European corporatism Pedro Ramos Pinto; 6. Social justice in authoritarian central Europe: Czechoslovakia under nazism and communism Radka Šustrová; 7. Social justice in a socialist society: understandings of social justice and social policy in hungary after 1945 Sándor Horváth; 8. Immigrants and social justice in Western Europe since the 1960s Daniel Gordon; 9. Re-imagining peace through social justice in mid-late twentieth-century Europe Simon Reid-Henry; 10. Social justice or sexual justice? social justice and the problem of women in twentieth-century Europe Celia Donert; 11. Equity rules: social justice on the ruins of socialism Adrian Grama; 12. Bridging the void: social justice in the history of the European Union Kiran Klaus Patel; 13. Postscript Samuel Moyn; Index.