Welfare, modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919-1933
By: Young-Sun Hong.
Series: Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Public welfare -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Poor -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.; Germany -- Social policy.; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933.
Description: 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 (p. [277]-280) and index.