Social policy in the Third Reich : the working class and the national community / by Timothy W. Mason ; translated by Jim Broadwin ; edited by Jane Caplan ; with an introduction by Ursula Vogel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, Timothy W., 1940-1990.

Contributor:

Caplan, Jane.

Standardized Title:

Sozialpolitik im Dritten Reich. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--Germany--History.

Labor policy.

Working class.

History.

Social policy.

Germany--Social policy.

Germany.

Working class--Germany--History.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 434 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Providence, RI : Berg, 1993.

Summary:

Many social and economic historians will be pleased to learn that this pioneering study is at long last available in English translation. This book analyses the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. It argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus very uncertain of itself when it came to imposing mass economic sacrifices in the interests of forced rearmament. With a growing labour shortage in the late 1930s, industrial conflict re-emerged: these two factors slowed down military preparations for war and may well, it is argued, have influenced Hitler's foreign policy in 1938/39. The author has added a substantial epilogue to this edition in which he responds to the main criticisms, aroused by the German original, and assesses the relevance of more recent research to the arguments put forward.

Notes:

"The main text of this book (the preface, and chapters i-vi) is a translation of the Tim Mason's 'Sozialpolitik im Dritten Reich. Arbeiterklasse und Volksgemeinschaft' (Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1977)"--P. 1.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 384-424) and index.

ISBN:

0854966218

085496410X

OCLC:

27429258