Steinmetz Regulating the Social

The Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2096-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Map of the German Empire, 1871-1914

Introduction 1

Ch. 1 Social Theory and the German Welfare State 15

Ch. 2 Toward an Explanation of the Welfare State in Nineteenth-Century Germany 41

Ch. 3 The Rise of the Social Question and Social Policy in Nineteenth-Century Germany 55

Ch. 4 The Central State in Imperial Germany 73

Ch. 5 The Prussian-German Welfare State: Social Policy at the Central Level 108

Ch. 6 Municipal Politics and the Local Regulation of the Social until the 1890s: Poor Relief and Worker Policy 149

Ch. 7 Change in Municipal Politics and the Regulation of the Social after the 1890s: Scientific Social Work and Proto-Corporatism 188

Ch. 8 Conclusion 215

Appendix: Table of Complete Regression Models for Poor-Relief Spending and Unemployment Insurance: German Cities 221

Notes 223

References 309

Index 369

Über Autor(innen)

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