Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe

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.

'For anyone interested in the political and social history of twentieth-century Europe, the volume's transnational and comparative approach can provide an inspiring read.' Alexander Mayer, H-Soz-Kult