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Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State
By (Author) Young-Sun Hong
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th April 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
362.58094309
Hardback
304
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
595g
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 ma