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The book explores the transformative changes in Western Europe during the 1970s, focusing on the decline of traditional industries like coal and steel and the resulting social and economic upheaval. It examines the impact on industrial workers, their careers, and communities as political agendas shifted and new social issues emerged. Key themes include the evolution of social rights, the influence of globalization and technology on work, and the personal experiences of workers navigating this period of uncertainty and change.

This book brings together authors working on some of the most significant poverty and welfare research projects on the European stage. The contributions focus broadly on the experience of being poor in England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany between 1800 and the 1940s, a theme that has received inadequate attention in the European historiography thus far. The chapters are organised into three thematic sections. The first deals with the experience of being networks, migration and survival strategies; the second with confinement, discipline, surveillance and paths to the welfare state; and the third with the symbolism of poverty.