Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Hong, Young-Sun, 1955-

Publication

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

xii, 289 pages; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Uniform Title

Princeton studies in culture/power/history

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Public welfare > Germany > History > 20th century
• Poor > Germany > History > 20th century
• Social Welfare > history
• 15.70 history of Europe
• Poor
• Public welfare
• Social conditions
• Social policy
• Weimar-republiek
• Welzijnszorg
• Welzijnsbeleid
• Poor > Germany > History > 20th century
• Public welfare > Germany > History > 20th century
• Germany > Social policy
• Germany > Social conditions > 1918-1933
• Germany
• Germany > Social conditions > 1918-1933
• Germany > Social policy

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

Ch. 1. The Politics of Welfare Reform, 1919-1923 -- Ch. 2. Weltanschauung and Staatsauffassung in the Making of the National Youth Welfare Law -- Ch. 3. The New Poor and the Politics of Group Entitlements, 1919-1923 -- Ch. 4. Between Public Assistance and Social Security -- Ch. 5. Gender, Social Discipline, and the Social Work Profession -- Ch. 6. Corporatism, Weltanschauungskampf, and the Demise of Parliamentary Democracy in the Welfare Sector -- Ch. 7. The Contradictions of the Republican Welfare State, 1928-1933 -- Ch. 8. From the Welfare State to the Racial State: Eugenics and Welfare Reform, 1928-1934.

ISBN

• 0691056749
• 9780691056746
• 0691057931
• 9780691057934

LCCN

97034249

OCLC

• ocm37443175
• 37443175
• SCSB-359345

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library