Download or read book Poverty, Charity and Social Welfare in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries written by Milan Hlavačka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social policy, as executed in western civilization, is apparently at a crossroads, with “forgotten” contradictions between the rich and the poor having once again become topical. The current economic and social crisis, including the crisis of the welfare state, raises the need to seek solutions from the past as well as the present. This volume brings together examples of social practice in the Central European region from the 19th century to the 1950s.