We are delighted to announce that the volume Mobilizing for Welfare in Europe. The Unpolitical Politics of Social Action, 1870s-1990s. A Document Reader edited by Efi Avdela, Clarisse Berthezène, Laura Lee Downs, Dominika Gruziel, and Dimitra Lampropoulou has recently been published by Bloomsbury.

This is an engaging collection of 20 primary sources that provide insights into different approaches to social welfare from around Europe in the long 20th century, focusing particularly on marginalized groups. Each chapter sheds light on a case of collective welfare action, and includes translated archival documents, alongside commentary that contextualises each case, and examines its socio-political underpinnings. […] Using the idea of ‘unpolitical politics’ as a new lens through which to explore the development of social welfare in a number of European contexts, this volume analyses who and what purports to be ‘neutral’, and why.

The book includes chapters by  (1) Dominika Gruziel  – (2) Maria Papathanasiou – (3) Pirjo Markkola – (4) Fabio Giomi  -(5) Anne Cova – (6) Inmaculada Blasco Herranz  – (7&11) Laura Lee Downs – (8) Stefano Petrungaro  – (9) Elena Maria Rita Rizzi  – (10) Léa Delmaire  – (12) Clarisse Berthezène  – (13) Michele Mioni  – (14) Angela Cenarro  – (15) Efi Avdela and Dimitra Lampropoulou  – (16) Dimitra Lampropoulou  – (17) Despo Kritsotaki  – (18) Ana Kladnik  – (19) Carole Holohan  – (20) Patricia Kennedy – (21) Lindsey Earner-Byrne  – (22) Adriana Zaharijevic.