TY - BOOK ID - 80829220 TI - Poor relief and welfare in Germany from the Reformation to World War I PY - 2008 SN - 9780511511790 9780521506038 9780521188852 9780511429699 051142969X 0511511795 0521506034 0521188857 9780511427510 0511427514 1107189500 1281791229 9786611791223 0511429312 051142812X 0511428839 PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Public welfare KW - Poor KW - Charities KW - Alms and almsgiving KW - Benevolent institutions KW - Charitable institutions KW - Endowed charities KW - Institutions, Charitable and philanthropic KW - Philanthropy KW - Poor relief KW - Private nonprofit social work KW - Relief (Aid) KW - Social welfare KW - Associations, institutions, etc. KW - Social service KW - Endowments KW - Disadvantaged, Economically KW - Economically disadvantaged KW - Impoverished people KW - Low-income people KW - Pauperism KW - Poor, The KW - Poor people KW - Persons KW - Social classes KW - Poverty KW - Public assistance KW - Public charities KW - Public relief KW - Public welfare reform KW - Welfare (Public assistance) KW - Welfare reform KW - Human services KW - History. KW - Services for KW - Societies, etc. KW - Economic conditions KW - Government policy KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80829220 AB - This account of poor relief, charity, and social welfare in Germany from the Reformation through World War I integrates historical narrative and theoretical analysis of such issues as social discipline, governmentality, gender, religion, and state-formation. It analyses the changing cultural frameworks through which the poor came to be considered as needy; the institutions, strategies, and practices devised to assist, integrate, and discipline these populations; and the political alchemy through which the needs of the individual were reconciled with those of the community. While the Bismarckian social insurance programs have long been regarded as the origin of the German welfare state, this book shows how preventive social welfare programs - the second pillar of the welfare state - evolved out of traditional poor relief, and it emphasises the role of progressive reformers and local, voluntary initiative in this process and the impact of competing reform discourses on both the social domain and the public sphere. ER -