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Book SynopsisThis 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 ma
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction3Ch. 1The Politics of Welfare Reform, 1919-192344Ch. 2Weltanschauung and Staatsauffassung in the Making of the National Youth Welfare Law76Ch. 3The New Poor and the Politics of Group Entitlements, 1919-192391Ch. 4Between Public Assistance and Social Security114Ch. 5Gender, Social Discipline, and the Social Work Profession141Ch. 6Corporatism, Weltanschauungskampf, and the Demise of Parliamentary Democracy in the Welfare Sector181Ch. 7The Contradictions of the Republican Welfare State, 1928-1933203Ch. 8From the Welfare State to the Racial State: Eugenics and Welfare Reform, 1928-1934239Bibliography277Index281
