European significance: established in the 19th century to reduce poverty through social employment in new agricultural settlements, social experiment in what was then the Kingdom of the Netherlands with borders resulting from the Congress of Vienna, pioneered a new public-private approach based on investments in agriculture on barren land, providing access to education and employment, and preserving 'peace and order' in society, on the one hand, but also on "false assumptions about the make-ability and productivity of people and land", on the other; reveal the long evolution in the European thought concerning socially marginalised people and their scarcely recognised rights as full members of society
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