Regulating the Social (eBook)

The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany

George Steinmetz (Autor)

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1993
404 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2096-2 (ISBN)

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George Steinmetz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.

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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 "e;Elberfeld"e; 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 "e;social question."e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.1993
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone 1 map
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • Anti-Capitalism • Bourgeoisie • Cameralism • Capitalism • Capitalist state • Civil Society • class conflict • Comparative Advantage • Corporatism • despotism • die neue Zeit • economic interventionism • economic liberalism • Economics • Eduard Bernstein • Elberfeld system • Employment • Eric Hobsbawm • Erik Olin Wright • Ernst Kantorowicz • Eugenics • false consciousness • Franz Mehring • Friedrich List • Friedrich Naumann • Ghent system • Hegemony and Socialist Strategy • Historikerstreit • imperialism • industrialisation • invisible Hand • Karl Kautsky • Konrad Adenauer • Kulturkampf • labor theory of value • Labour movement • Labour Power • left-wing politics • Legislation • Liberalism • Liberalism (book) • Liberalization • local government • Lorenz von Stein • Marxism • mercantilism • monopoly capital • Monopoly on Violence • National-Social Association • Nazi eugenics • Nazism • neo-feudalism • New Class • Otto von Bismarck • Patriarchalism • police state • political revolution • Politics • Politique • poor relief • Post-Marxism • Primitive accumulation of capital • prussia • Public Expenditure • racial hygiene • radical feminism • Reason and Revolution • Reinhart Koselleck • Revolution • Sammlungspolitik • Social Class • Social Darwinism • Social Democracy • Social Insurance • social liberalism • Social Policy • social revolution • Solidarism • Sonderweg • State monopoly capitalism • States and Social Revolutions • state socialism • States of Germany • Tax • technocracy • Theodor Lohmann • Thomas Nipperdey • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • Verstehen • Verwaltung • Wagner's law • Walther Rathenau • war • welfare • Welfare State • Werner Sombart • workhouse • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2096-0 / 1400820960
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2096-2 / 9781400820962