ISBN:
9780191085093
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 481 Seiten)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.485
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918-Influence
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Abstract:
This book provides a systematic theoretical discussion of the various impacts of mass warfare on welfare state development and brings war back into comparative welfare state research.
Abstract:
Cover -- Warfare and Welfare: Military Conflict and Welfare State Development in Western Countries -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Studying the Warfare-Welfare Nexus -- WARFARE AND WELFARE: ARE THEY RELATED? IF SO, HOW? -- WARFARE-WELFARE NARRATIVES IN THE NATIONAL LITERATURE -- DID WAR REALLY MATTER THAT MUCH? -- WAR AND WELFARE IN THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE -- OPENING THE BLACK BOX: TOWARDS A SYSTEMATIC COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE WARFARE-WELFARE NEXUS -- POSSIBLE CAUSAL MECHANISMS LINKING MILITARY CONFLICT AND THE WELFARE STATE -- War Preparation -- War Mobilization -- The Post-War Period -- THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT -- OUTLINE OF CONTENTS -- REFERENCES -- 2: The Impact of War on Welfare State Development in Germany -- INTRODUCTION -- THE WARS OF GERMAN UNIFICATION -- 'SOCIAL IMPERIALISM' AND WAR PREPARATION PRE-1914 -- WORLD WAR I , 1914-1918 -- The 'Burgfrieden': The Primacy of Warfare -- Material Hardship and the Modernization of Social Assistance and Social Services -- The 'Human Economics of War': Using Social Policy to Mobilize the War Economy -- State Breakdown, Defeat, and the Failure of Social Policy -- THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I -- Welfare State Building on the Empire's Ruins -- Weimar as a Veterans' Welfare State -- WAR PREPARATION IN THE 1930s -- Armament and Social Policy: Guns and a Little Butter -- Mobilizing Labour: Lessons Learned? -- WORLD WAR II -- Cash for Services Rendered: The Wartime Expansion of Family Benefits -- Social Security: Favours, Rivalries, and Propaganda -- The Mobilization of Labour in the 'Total War' -- Simulated Civil Society: Social Services During the War -- Financing World War II -- THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II -- Immediate Needs -- The Emerging Welfare State for War Victims -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.
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