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Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State / Young-Sun Hong.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ; 385Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1998Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 5 tables F024 6x9Content type:
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  • 9780691601021
  • 9781400864751
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.94309041 21
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  • HV275 .H664 2014eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Politics of Welfare Reform, 1919-1923 -- CHAPTER TWO. Weltanschauung and Staatsauffassung in the Making of the National Youth Welfare Law -- CHAPTER THREE. The New Poor and the Politics of Group Entitlements, 1919-1923 -- CHAPTER FOUR. Between Public Assistance and Social Security -- CHAPTER FIVE. Gender, Social Discipline, and the Social Work Profession -- CHAPTER SIX. Corporatism, Weltanschauungskampf, and the Demise of Parliamentary Democracy in the Welfare Sector -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Contradictions of the Republican Welfare State, 1928-1933 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. From the Welfare State to the Racial State: Eugenics and Welfare Reform, 1928-1934 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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.The book begins by tracing the transformation of Germany's traditional, disciplinary poor-relief programs into a modern, bureaucratized and professionalized social welfare system. It then shows how, in the second half of the republic, attempts by both public and voluntary welfare organizations to reduce social insecurity by rationalizing working-class family life and reproduction alienated welfare reformers and recipients alike from both the welfare system and the Republic itself. Hong concludes that, in the welfare sector, the most direct continuity between the republican welfare system and the social policies of Nazi Germany is to be found not in the pathologies of progressive social engineering, but rather in the rejection of the moral and political foundations of the republican welfare system by eugenic welfare reformers and their Nazi supporters.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Politics of Welfare Reform, 1919-1923 -- CHAPTER TWO. Weltanschauung and Staatsauffassung in the Making of the National Youth Welfare Law -- CHAPTER THREE. The New Poor and the Politics of Group Entitlements, 1919-1923 -- CHAPTER FOUR. Between Public Assistance and Social Security -- CHAPTER FIVE. Gender, Social Discipline, and the Social Work Profession -- CHAPTER SIX. Corporatism, Weltanschauungskampf, and the Demise of Parliamentary Democracy in the Welfare Sector -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Contradictions of the Republican Welfare State, 1928-1933 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. From the Welfare State to the Racial State: Eugenics and Welfare Reform, 1928-1934 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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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.The book begins by tracing the transformation of Germany's traditional, disciplinary poor-relief programs into a modern, bureaucratized and professionalized social welfare system. It then shows how, in the second half of the republic, attempts by both public and voluntary welfare organizations to reduce social insecurity by rationalizing working-class family life and reproduction alienated welfare reformers and recipients alike from both the welfare system and the Republic itself. Hong concludes that, in the welfare sector, the most direct continuity between the republican welfare system and the social policies of Nazi Germany is to be found not in the pathologies of progressive social engineering, but rather in the rejection of the moral and political foundations of the republican welfare system by eugenic welfare reformers and their Nazi supporters.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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