Format:
Online-Ressource (375 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781400820962
Series Statement:
Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Content:
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 insuran
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Description based upon print version of record
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691032405
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Regulating the Social : Welfare State and Local Politics in Imperial Germany
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Author information:
Steinmetz, George 1957-
