Download or read book Regulating the Social written by George Steinmetz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993-08-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the welfare state develop so unevenly across countries, regions, and localities? What accounts for the exclusions and disciplinary features of social programs? How are elite and popular conceptions of social reality related to welfare policies? George Steinmetz approaches these and other issues by exploring the complex origins and development of local and national social policies in nineteenth-century Germany. Generally regarded as the birthplace of the modern welfare state, Germany experimented with a wide variety of social programs before 1914, including the national social insurance legislation of the 1880s, the "Elberfeld" system of poor relief, protocorporatist policies, and modern forms of social work. Imperial Germany offers a particularly useful context in which to compare different programs at various levels of government. Looking at changes in welfare policy over the course of the nineteenth century, differences between state and municipal interventions, and intercity variations in policy, Steinmetz develops an account that focuses on the specific constraints on local and national policymakers and the different ways of imagining the "social question." Whereas certain aspects of the pre-1914 welfare state reinforced social divisions and even foreshadowed aspects of the Nazi regime, other dimensions actually helped to relieve sickness, poverty, and unemployment. Steinmetz explores the conditions that led to both the positive and the objectionable features of social policy. The explanation draws on statist, Marxist, and social democratic perspectives and on theories of gender and culture.
Download or read book Welfare Modernity and the Weimar State written by Young-Sun Hong and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film written by Sophie Duvernoy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Germany as a national case study, this volume examines the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality. “Precarity is everywhere now,” sociologist Pierre Bourdieu declared almost thirty years ago. Not only declining middle-class standards of living, but also debt, drug addiction, housing and food insecurity, depression, and “deaths of despair” are now being recognized as symptoms of the downward pull of social precarity. Although these and similar ills have been attributed to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, and willful neglect of the common good, precarization has accompanied the booms and busts of industrial modernity from its beginnings. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film explores how German and Austrian literature, film, and social history have engaged with social precarity, from the period of Romanticism and early industrialization to the present. The chapters in this volume deal with precarity as both an objective phenomenon reflected in literary and filmic representations and as a subjective phenomenon that gives these representations their particular shape. Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film opens new critical perspectives on diverse forms of lived precarity and their creative manifestations by reflecting on the history of capitalist modernity from the vantage points of weakness, vulnerability, marginality, impoverishment, and otherness.
Download or read book Reports and Minutes of Evidence written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reports Communicated to the Local Government Board written by Andrew Doyle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Poor Law Magazine and Parochial Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charity Organization Movement in the United States written by Frank Dekker Watson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the public welfare movement in the United States.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Local Government Board written by Great Britain. Local Government Board and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A handy book for visitors of the poor in London written by Charles Bertie P. Bosanquet and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
- Author : Charles Bertie Pulleine Bosanquet
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- Pages : 168 pages
A Handy book for Visitors of the Poor in London with Chapters on Poor Law Sanitary Law and Charities
Download or read book A Handy book for Visitors of the Poor in London with Chapters on Poor Law Sanitary Law and Charities written by Charles Bertie Pulleine Bosanquet and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany 1850 1914 written by E. P. Hennock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparison of the origins of the welfare state in England and Germany (1850-1914).
Download or read book Annual Report written by Great Britain. Local Government Board and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplements to the Board's Annual report include the: Report of the medical officer
Download or read book Parliamentary Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
