The aim of the 2015 ESPAnet Italy’s eighth conference is to integrate the historical analysis of Italian social policies with the cross-sectional comparison of new welfare systems emerging both in Europe and throughout the world. The idea underlying the conference consists of historically...

The object of study is institutions created or transformed with the primary function of providing solidarity and assistance. To delimit the field of investigation, which is particularly broad, reference will be made to those institutions that played a significant role in the area in which they...