Making security social : disability, insurance, and the birth of the social entitlement state in Germany / Greg Eghigian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eghigian, Greg, 1961-

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social security--Germany--History.

Social security.

Disability insurance--Germany--History.

Disability insurance.

Public welfare--Germany--History.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While welfare has been subject to pronounced criticism throughout the twentieth century, social insurance has consistently enjoyed the overwhelming support of European policy makers and citizens.

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Social Security, Rationality, and the German Welfare State; 2. Insurance Becomes Social Policy: The Sources of Social Concern in Nineteenth-Century Germany; 3. Embodied Entitlement: The Policy, Practice, and Politics of Disability Compensation, 1884-1914; 4. The Regenerative Welfare State: Therapy, Work, and the Birth of Rehabilitation, 1884-1914; 5. War, Revolution, and Care for the Disabled, 1914-21; 6. The Inflation of Social Entitlement, 1918-27: Sacrifice and the Politics of Victimization

7. The Rise of the Degenerative Welfare State: A Genealogy of the Backlash against Weimar Social Policy, 1889-19338. Conclusion: Social Security and the Politics of Entitlement in Twentieth-Century Germany; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references ([289]-293) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472122233

0472122231

9780472906741

OCLC:

951222662