Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe
Social Justice in Twentieth-Century Europe
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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.
- Provides a genuinely transnational history of social justice in Europe
- Demonstrates how a wide variety of regimes in twentieth-century Europe were engaged with issues of social justice, including Italian Fascism, Communism, the Nazi regime, as well as the democratic regimes of Western Europe
- Explores social justice as a historical phenomenon that has evolved throughout the twentieth century, in contrast to approaches rooted in the present day
Reviews & endorsements
‘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
Product details
- Published: March 2024
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781009370851
- Length: 296 pages
- Dimensions: 235 × 158 × 22 mm
- Weight: 0.58kg
- Availability: Available
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Table of Contents
- 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.
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