Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State ：Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle ：Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State

Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library

Author： Hong Young-Sun;;;  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400864751

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691056746

Subject： K5 European History

Keyword： 欧洲史

Language： ENG

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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, b

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Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Social Discipline and the Politics of Welfare Reform

The Contradictions of Modernity and the Fragmentation of the Public Sphere in the Welfare Sector

The Historical Background: Poor Relief, Charity, and the Evolution of Social Welfare in Germany, 1830-1918

The Structure of the Book

1 The Politics of Welfare Reform, 1919-1923

Social Democracy, Progressivism, Christian Conservatism, and the Shaping of the Weimar State

"We Are the Subject, Not the Object, of Social Welfare": Social Democracy and Workers' Welfare

Christian Conservatism, the Church Charities, and the Republic

The Progressive Path to the Welfare State: Social Citizenship, the National Community of Labor, and Individualized Personal Help

Progressivism, Social Democracy, and Welfare Reform, 1919-1922

Progressivism and the Church Charities Between Cooperation and Corporatism

2 Weltanschauung and Staatsauffassung in the Making of the National Youth Welfare Law

Church, State, and the Nature of Public Authority

3 The New Poor and the Politics of Group Entitlements, 1919-1923

Disabled Veterans and War Survivors

Sozialrentner

Kleinrentner

Inflation, the Shifting Balance of Public and Voluntary Welfare, and the Problem of Reform

4 Between Public Assistance and Social Security

The RFV, the New Poor, and the Contradictions of Progressive Welfare Reform, 1922-1930

From Poor Law Reform to Welfare Legislation

The New Poor in the Period of Relative Prosperity

5 Gender, Social Discipline, and the Social Work Profession

Imaginary Community: The Repression of Politics and the Constitution of the Social Work Profession

Class, Gender, and Social Work

Gender Conflict and the Theoretical Foundations of Social Work Training in the 1920s

The Failure of Social Motherhood and the Abandonment of the Republic

The Return of the Repressed: The Social Democratic Theory of Social Work

The Contradictions of Social Pedagogy and the Political Culture of the Republic

6 Corporatism, Weltanschauungskampf, and the Demise of Parliamentary Democracy in the Welfare Sector

Organizing Corporate Interests

Kulturkampf in the Welfare Sector

The Völkisch Search for Organic Unity Between State and Society

7 The Contradictions of the Republican Welfare State, 1928-1933

Voluntary Welfare Strikes Back: The Dismantling of Unemployment Insurance and the Crisis of Municipal Welfare

Social Democracy, "Der Risikofreie Mensch," and the Contradictions of the Progressive Project

The Church Charities, National Socialism, and the Failure of Authoritarian Corporatism

8 From the Welfare State to the Racial State: Eugenics and Welfare Reform, 1928-1934

The Ambiguities of Social Citizenship: The Debate over Correctional Custody, 1921-1928

From Fürsorge to Vorsorge

The Church Charities and Eugenic Welfare Reform

Toward the Racial State

Conclusion: Nazi "Welfare" and the Rejection of the Republican Welfare System

Bibliography

Index

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