State, Social Policy and Social Change in Germany, 1880-1994 [Hardcover]

This classic text -- thoroughly revised to take into account the effects of unification -- explores the relationship between state policy and social change in modern German history. Particular emphasis is placed on the Wilhelmine Empire (pre-1918), the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) and West Germany since 1945.Chapters address:- the social implications of industrial medicine since the 19th century;- official attitudes to the employment of female civil servants in the Weimar Republic;- public health in the Weimar Republic; and- the role of municipal finance in 20th-century economics and politics.This is an invaluable sourcebook for students and scholars looking for insights into current debates about German state policy, the preconditions for the rise of Nazism, and the evidence that the process of reunification provides for the character of the GDR and the future of the Federal Republic.

Eve Rosenhaft and W.R. Lee, State and Society in Modern Germany - Beamtenstaat, Klassenstaat, Wohlfahrtsstaat -- Andreas Kunz, The State as Employer in Germany, 1880-1918: From Paternalism to Public Policy -- Helen Boak, The State as an Employer of Women in the Weimar Republic -- Martin Forberg, Foreign Labour, the State and Trade Unions in Imperial Germany, 1890-1918 -- Paul Weindling, Eugenics and the Welfare State during the Weimar Republic -- Dietrich Milles, Industrial Hygiene: A State Obligation? Industrial Pathology as a Problem in German Social Policy -- Richard Bessel, State and Society in Germany in the Aftermath of the First World War -- Harold James, Municipal Finance in the Weimar Republic -- Jeremy Leaman, The Gemeinden as Agents of Fiscal and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century: Local Government and State-form Crises in Germany

W. R. Lee Professor of Economic History,University of Liverpool Eve Rosenhaft Head of the School of Modern Languages, University of Liverpool Richard Bessel Helen Boak Andreas Kunz Jeremy Leaman Dietrich Milles Pl,