Warfare and welfare : military conflict and welfare state development in western countries / edited by Herbert Obinger, Klaus Petersen, and Peter Starke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Obinger, Herbert, 1970- editor.

Contributor:

Petersen, Klaus, 1965- editor.

Starke, Peter, 1977- editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Western countries--History.

Welfare state.

World War, 1914-1918--Influence.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1939-1945--Influence.

World War, 1939-1945.

History.

Western countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Warfare and Welfare: Military Conflict and Welfare State Development in Western Countries; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; 1: Introduction: Studying the Warfare-Welfare Nexus; WARFARE AND WELFARE: ARE THEY RELATED? IF SO, HOW?; WARFARE-WELFARE NARRATIVES IN THE NATIONAL LITERATURE; DID WAR REALLY MATTER THAT MUCH?; WAR AND WELFARE IN THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE; OPENING THE BLACK BOX: TOWARDS A SYSTEMATIC COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE WARFARE-WELFARE NEXUS; POSSIBLE CAUSAL MECHANISMS LINKING MILITARY CONFLICT AND THE WELFARE STATE

War PreparationWar Mobilization; The Post-War Period; THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT; OUTLINE OF CONTENTS; REFERENCES; 2: The Impact of War on Welfare State Development in Germany; INTRODUCTION; THE WARS OF GERMAN UNIFICATION; 'SOCIAL IMPERIALISM' AND WAR PREPARATION PRE-1914; WORLD WAR I , 1914-1918; The 'Burgfrieden': The Primacy of Warfare; Material Hardship and the Modernization of Social Assistance and Social Services; The 'Human Economics of War': Using Social Policy to Mobilize the War Economy; State Breakdown, Defeat, and the Failure of Social Policy; THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I

Welfare State Building on the Empire's RuinsWeimar as a Veterans' Welfare State; WAR PREPARATION IN THE 1930s; Armament and Social Policy: Guns and a Little Butter; Mobilizing Labour: Lessons Learned?; WORLD WAR II; Cash for Services Rendered: The Wartime Expansion of Family Benefits; Social Security: Favours, Rivalries, and Propaganda; The Mobilization of Labour in the 'Total War'; Simulated Civil Society: Social Services During the War; Financing World War II; THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II; Immediate Needs; The Emerging Welfare State for War Victims; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

3: War Preparation, Warfare, and the Welfare State in AustriaINTRODUCTION; WAR PREPARATION AND EARLY WELFARE STATE FORMATION; WORLD WAR I; THE INTERWAR PERIOD; Republican Austria (1918-1933/4); Austro-Fascism (1933/4-1938); NAZI RULE AND WORLD WAR II; POST-WAR CONSEQUENCES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 4: Italy: Wars, Political Extremism, and the Constraints to Welfare Reform; INTRODUCTION; EARLY ORIGINS: FROM INDEPENDENCE TO THE LIBYAN WAR; WORLD WAR I AND ITS DOMESTIC IMPACT; THE INSTITUTIONAL AND DISTRIBUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR AND THE 'CONVERSION' TO WELFARE UNIVERSALISM

POST-WAR POLITICS AND THE (FIRST) FAILURE OF UNIVERSALISMFASCISM AND THE RISE OF THE WARFARE STATE; WORLD WAR II AND ITS DOMESTIC IMPACT; THE SECOND (POLITICAL) FAILURE OF UNIVERSALISM; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; 5: The Two World Wars and Social Policy in France; INTRODUCTION; WORLD WAR I : THE RISE OF STATISM AND THE MOBILIZATION OF LOCAL SOCIAL EFFORT; THE 1920s: DIVISION OR CONSENSUS?; THE 'NEW POOR' AND RISING MIDDLE-CLASS SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL INSURANCE; VICHY; LIBERATION; REFERENCES; 6: Welfare Policy and War in Japan; INTRODUCTION; THE STATUS QUO ANTEBELLUM; WHAT KIND OF WAR?

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780191824647

019182464X

9780191085093

019108509X

Publisher Number:

40028480804

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