Poor relief and welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I

Abstract

1. Discipline, community, and the 16th-century origins of modern poor relief 2. The rise and fall of the workhouse: poor relief and social policy in the age of absolutism 3. Pauperism, moral reform, and visions of civil society, 1800-1870 4. The state, the market, and the regulation of poor relief, 1830-1870 5. The assistantial double helix: poor relief, social insurance, and the political economy of poor relief, 1830-1870 6. New voices: citizenship, social reform, and the origins of modern social work in Imperial Germany 7. The social perspective on need and the origins of modern social welfare 8. From fault to risk: changing strategies of assistance to the jobless in Imperial Germany 9. Youth welfare and the political alchemy of juvenile justice 10. The social evolution of poor relief, the crisis of voluntarism, and the limits of progressive social reform 11. Family, gender, and (dis)order on the home front in World War I 12. Wartime youth welfare and the progressive refiguring of the social contract.