Title: Welfare, modernity, and the Weimar State, 1919-1933
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: History, Poor, Social conditions, Social policy, Public welfare, Public welfare, germany, Germany, social conditions, Germany, politics and government, 1918-1933, Marriage counseling, Marriage
Places: Germany
Time periods: 20th century, 1918-1933
LC classification: HV275 .H664 1998