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Regulating the Social
George Steinmetz
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft
Beschreibung
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 "Elberfeld" 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 "social question." 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.
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Friedrich Naumann, Labour movement, Social revolution, Mercantilism, Eduard Bernstein, Invisible hand, Social democracy, National-Social Association, Prussia, Liberalism, Karl Kautsky, Elberfeld system, Employment, Liberalism (book), Nazism, Police state, Verstehen, Walther Rathenau, Social class, Workhouse, Thomas Nipperdey, Comparative advantage, Racial hygiene, Theodor Lohmann, Politique, Patriarchalism, Legislation, Activism, Political revolution, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, Labor theory of value, Tax, Economics, Franz Mehring, Local government, Monopoly on violence, Corporatism, Eugenics, Ghent system, Public expenditure, Otto von Bismarck, Poor relief, Marxism, Neo-feudalism, Friedrich List, Labour power, Erik Olin Wright, Reason and Revolution, States and Social Revolutions, Sonderweg, State monopoly capitalism, Die Neue Zeit, State socialism, Social insurance, Primitive accumulation of capital, Kulturkampf, Welfare, Cameralism, Sammlungspolitik, Working class, Eric Hobsbawm, Bourgeoisie, Unemployment, Monopoly Capital, Social policy, Capitalism, States of Germany, Civil society, Welfare state, Social liberalism