Poor relief and welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I

This account of poor relief, charity, and social welfare in Germany from the Reformation through World War I integrates historical narrative and theoretical analysis of such issues as social discipline, governmentality, gender, religion, and state-formation. It analyses the changing cultural framewo...

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Autor principal: Frohman, Larry (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2008.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Discipline, community, and the 16th-century origins of modern poor relief
  • 2. The rise and fall of the workhouse: poor relief and social policy in the age of absolutism
  • 3. Pauperism, moral reform, and visions of civil society, 1800-1870
  • 4. The state, the market, and the regulation of poor relief, 1830-1870
  • 5. The assistantial double helix: poor relief, social insurance, and the political economy of poor relief, 1830-1870
  • 6. New voices: citizenship, social reform, and the origins of modern social work in Imperial Germany
  • 7. The social perspective on need and the origins of modern social welfare
  • 8. From fault to risk: changing strategies of assistance to the jobless in Imperial Germany.