Author: Crew, David F.
Title: Germans on Welfare: From Weimar to Hitler
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xiii, 287 pp.. Minor rubbing, slight side page-edge soil, VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Meaning of the German Welfare State; Religion, Socialism & State Welfare in the Weimar Republic; The Welfare System in the Neighborhoods: Professionals & Volunteers; The Gender of Welfare: Women & Social Work; Becoming a Welfare Client; Pensioners in the Welfare System; Weimar Women on Welfare; The State as Parent? Youth Welfare and German Families; The Weimar Welfare State's Last Crisis, 1929-1933; Hungry & Homeless in the Depression; "Welfare in the Preservation of Labor Power":Unemployment & Work Relief; Conclusion: Towards the Nazi Racial State.

Keywords: German Historical Sociology, Weimar Germany, Public Welfare, State Policy, Social History, , , ,