Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State

by Young-Sun Hong

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069160102X
• ISBN13: 9780691601021
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"