Poor Relief and Welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
List of Tables and Figure......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
1 Discipline, Community, and the Sixteenth-Century Origins of Modern Poor Relief......Page 23
The Desacralization of Poverty and the New Discourse on Vagrancy......Page 24
Work and the Reorganization of Public Assistance......Page 28
Confessional Differences and the Role of Religion in the New Poor Relief......Page 36
Rethinking the Disciplinary Telos......Page 44
The Formation of the Classical Workhouse......Page 47
Beyond the Workhouse: Industriousness, Education, and the Prevention of Poverty in the Age of Enlightenment......Page 55
Voluntary Associations and the Problem of Social Governance......Page 65
Pauperism, the Dangerous Classes, and the Social Question......Page 70
Protestant Social Conservatism and the Founding of the Inner Mission......Page 76
Mobility, Modernity, and the Liberal Response to the Social Question......Page 83
4 The State, the Market, and the Organization of Poor Relief, 1830–1870......Page 92
Reform Strategies in Prussia and Southern Germany......Page 93
The Elberfeld System and the Formation of a Market Society, 1850–1870......Page 99
5 The Assistantial Double Helix: Poor Relief, Social Insurance, and the Political Economy of Poor Law Reform......Page 111
Poor Law Reform by Another Name......Page 112
Old Conflicts and New Departures......Page 121
6 New Voices: Citizenship, Social Reform, and the Origins of Modern Social Work in Imperial Germany......Page 124
The Inner Mission, 1870–1914......Page 127
The Bourgeois Women's Movement, the Spiritualization of Motherhood, and Social Work as Social Reconciliation......Page 128
The Caritas Association and the Reluctant Modernization of Catholic Charity......Page 145
Social Democracy: The Demonization of the Capitalist System and Pragmatic Cooperation at the Local Level......Page 150
The Social Perspective on Poverty and the Logic of Social Citizenship......Page 153
Familial Subjects – The Archimedean Point of Social Reform......Page 164
8 From Fault to Risk: Changing Strategies of Assistance to the Jobless in Imperial Germany......Page 170
Migrant Relief, Workhouses, and the Policing of the Residuum......Page 172
From the Margins to the Center: The War on Labor Market Risk......Page 184
9 Youth Welfare and the Political Alchemy of Juvenile Justice......Page 191
Guardianship and the Public Interest in the Private Family......Page 192
Juvenile Delinquency and the Socialization of Juvenile Justice......Page 195
10 The Social Evolution of Poor Relief, the Crisis of Voluntarism, and the Limits of Progressive Social Reform......Page 208
Total War and the Transformation of Social Politics......Page 218
Female Dependence, Female Citizenship, and the Wartime Challenge to Deterrent Poor Relief......Page 222
Kriegerfrauen and the Politics of National Obligation......Page 232
Motherhood, Work, and the Grounds of Citizenship......Page 236
Disabled Veterans and the Contradictions of Therapeutic Welfare......Page 242
From Prevention to Promotion: Rethinking the Political Rationality of Social Assistance......Page 245
State, Society, and the Corporatist Turn in the Social Sector......Page 250
Conclusion: The End of Poor Relief and the Invention of Welfare......Page 255
Sources and Abbreviations......Page 261
Index......Page 263