Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20029883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Young‐sun Hong (0009-0006-7479-4765, corresponding author), Young-sun Hong |
| Year | 1998 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781400864751 |
| OpenAlex | W2271494866 |
| Open Library | OL29235267M |
| ISBN | 9781400864751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
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.
Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Weimar Republic · Welfare · Welfare state · Computer Science · European history and politics · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism · 1918-1933 · Germany · politics and government · Poor · Public welfare · Social conditions
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| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,15 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2023 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |