The recipients of public welfare: the example of two Swiss cantons around 1890.

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      This article focuses on the study of the policy of social welfare at the end of the nineteenth century in two cantons in French-speaking Switzerland: Vaud and Neuchaˆtel. It argues that the definition of the potential recipients of social welfare was articulated around the possession of a status. This status was different in each canton and was based on different ways of conceiving citizenship. On the other hand, the categories targeted by welfare were relatively well defined, proof of an exactly similar representation of the poor, in phase with the spirit of the time, in both cantons. Comparing the government of poverty in two Swiss cantons at the end of the nineteenth century teaches us that its actions served to consolidate representations of citizenship on the cantonal level and to develop social control not only in respect of the poor, but also of the entire population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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