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Article: Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State: 1919-1933.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 1999
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By Young-Sun Hong (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. xii plus 289pp.).
The Weimar republic has often been called the first welfare state. Scholars have devoted much attention to disputes between the Weimar Right and Left about who should pay for its new entitlement programs, recognizing that the battles over, especially, unemployment insurance fostered the severe polarization of late Weimar politics. Until recently, however, historians have neglected Weimar debates about 'classic' welfare, that is, about how to provide relief for the indigent, whether the "traditional" poor such as the aged, disabled, or sick or the "new" poor created by ...