Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State:
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Main Author: Hong, Young-sun 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2014
Series:Princeton studies in culture/power/history
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Online Access:FAW01
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Item Description:ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: The Politics of Welfare Reform, 1919-1923; CHAPTER TWO: Weltanschauung and Staatsauffassung in the Making of the National Youth Welfare Law; CHAPTER THREE: The New Poor and the Politics of Group Entitlements, 1919-1923; CHAPTER FOUR: Between Public Assistance and Social Security; CHAPTER FIVE: Gender, Social Discipline, and the Social Work Profession; CHAPTER SIX: Corporatism, Weltanschauungskampf, and the Demise of Parliamentary Democracy in the Welfare Sector
This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the state bureaucracy, socialists, bourgeois feminists, and the major religious and humanitarian welfare organizations. She shows how these conceptions reflected and generated bitter conflict in German society. And she argues that this conflict undermined parliamentary government within the welfare sector in a way
Physical Description:304 pages
ISBN:9781400864751
1400864755

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