Social welfare in the 2nd Republic of Poland – introduction to source texts

• Authors: Brenk, Mikołaj , Chaczko, Krzysztof , Pląsek, Rafał

Abstracts

EN

The article presents selected aspects of the functioning of social welfare in Poland in the interwar period. The first part focuses on the key legal acts for the social welfare system created from the basics, i.e. the Social Welfare Act of 1923, as well as legal acts regulating the work of social carers, as well as those separating the assistance competences of individual levels of state administration. The second part presents fragments of theoretical works of key importance for the development of the social welfare discourse in the Second Republic of Poland. In turn, the third part shows practical aspects of the system's functioning. The authors tried to show both systemic problems that did not allow for fully effective functioning of social welfare, as well as the importance of the solutions introduced, which for the first time in the history of Poland guaranteed citizens access to basic social benefits from the state.

Keywords

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social welfare; social assistance; social carers; social welfare system; history of social welfare; the Social Welfare Act

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Praca Socjalna
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 34(4)
• Pages: 7-21

Dates

published

2019-12-05

Contributors

author

Brenk, Mikołaj

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Chaczko, Krzysztof

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Pląsek, Rafał

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.6194