Welfare, modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919-1933 / Young-Sun Hong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hong, Young-Sun, 1955-

Series:

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Germany--History--20th century.

Public welfare.

Poor--Germany--History--20th century.

Poor.

Social policy.

History.

Germany--Social policy.

Germany.

Germany--Social conditions--1918-1933.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 289 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1998]

Summary:

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 that paralleled the crisis of the entire Weimar political system and created a situation in which the Nazi critique of republican "welfare" could acquire broad political resonance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-280) and index.

ISBN:

0691056749

0691057931

OCLC:

37443175