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Origins of the German Welfare State

eBook - Social Policy in Germany to 1945, German Social Policy
SPRINGER
ISBN/EAN: 9783642225222
Umbreit-Nr.: 3726061

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 188 S., 1.67 MB
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Einband: Keine Angabe

Erschienen am 15.11.2012
Auflage: 1/2012


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  • Zusatztext
    • This book traces the origins of the German welfare state. The author, formerly director at the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, provides a perceptive overview of the history of social security and social welfare in Germany from early modern times to the end of World War II, including Bismarcks pioneering introduction of social insurance in the 1880s. The author unravels layers of social security that have piled up in the course of history and, so he argues, still linger in the present-day welfare state. The account begins with the first efforts by public authorities to regulate poverty and then proceeds to the social question that arose during the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. World War I had a major impact on the development of social security, both during the war and after, through the exigencies of the war economy, inflation and unemployment. The ruptures as well as the continuities of social policy under National Socialism and World War II are also investigated.
  • Kurztext
    • <p>Written by a distinguished scholar of German legal history, this book traces the origins of the German welfare state, and surveys the history of social security in Germany to 1945, including Bismarcks pioneering introduction of social insurance in the 1880s.</p>
  • Autorenportrait
    • <p><i>Michael Stolleis</i>is Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for European History of Law, Frankfurt a. M. He has been awarded honorary doctorates and prizes, including the Leibniz Prize, the Research Award Stockholm and the Balzan Prize (Milan).</p><p><i>Lutz Leisering,</i> the Editor,<i></i>is Professor for Social Policy and Director at the Institute for World Society studies, University of Bielefeld. He took his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics. He has published widely on European and global social policy.</p>