Germans on Welfare
From Weimar to Hitler
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7096017 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Edmund Clingan, David F Crew |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 207-207 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | German Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-7952 • E-ISSN: 2164-8646 |
| Publisher | German Studies Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1433197 |
| OpenAlex | W1572915174 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
The welfare state was one of the pillars of the Weimar Republic. The Weimar experiment in democracy depended to no small degree upon the welfare system's ability to give German citizens at least a fundamental level of material and mental security in the face of the new risks to which they had been exposed by the effects of the lost war, revolution, and inflation. But the problems of the postwar period meant that, even in its best years, the Weimar welfare state was dangerously overburdened. The onset of the Depression and the growth of mass unemployment after 1929 destroyed republican democracy and the welfare state upon which it was based. On the ruins of Weimars social republic, the Nazis built a murderous racial state. Existing work on the Weimar welfare state concentrates largely on the discussions of social reformers, welfare experts, feminists, and the laws and institutions that their debates produced. Yet the Weimar welfare state was not simply the product of discourse and discursive struggles; it was also constructed and re-produced by the daily interactions of hard-pressed officials and impatient, often desperate clients. Adopting a history of everyday life perspective, Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler, 1919-1935 shows how welfare discourse and policy were translated into welfare practices by local officials and appropriated, contested, or re-negotiated by millions of welfare clients. Available in OSO
Art · Art history · Political science · Politics · Weimar Republic · Welfare · European history and politics · History · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
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The Limits of Meritocracy in Stabilizing Democracy and the Twin Importance of Bureaucratic Impartiality and Effectiveness
Identifying the Unemployed
Between universal and national ‘social therapy’? Professional interventions by Jewish social workers in British Mandatory Palestine
The dissolution of cities’
Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish ‘Occupation Children’, 1920–30
The Return of the New Woman and Other Subjects of Weimar Gender History
Between Class War on All Fronts and Anti-Political Autonomy
Confusion and divergence
Women's Rights, Nationalist Anxiety, and the “Moral” Agenda in the Early Weimar Republic
Rescuing Children and Policing Families
Reclaiming Children for the Nation
Between Detroit and Moscow”
Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy
Suicide and Crisis in Weimar Berlin
Self-Interest Ennobled
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2021 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |