Social Policy in the Third Reich : The Working Class and the 'National Community'

Mason, Tim/ Broadwin, John (TRN)

Berg Publishers（1993/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 464 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780854964109
• DDC分類 943.086

Full Description

This book analyzes the attitudes and policies of the Nazi leadership towards the German working class. The author argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus less successful in imposing mass economic sacrifices in the interests of forced rearmament. With a growing labour shortage in the late 1930s, industrial conflict re emerged. These two factors slowed down military preparations for war and may well, it is argued, have influenced Hitler's foreign policy in 1938/39.The author has added a substantial epilogue to this edition in which he responds to the main criticisms, aroused by the German original, and assesses the relevance of more recent research to the arguments put forward.

Contents

The legacy of 1918 for national socialism; national socialism and the working class, 1925 to May 1933; the revolution of class; the condition of the working class in Germany, 1933-1936 - employment creation programmes, wages, living standards and the state social policy; labour policy and social ideology, 1934-1936; labour policy, rearmament and war, September 1936 to December 1939 - social consequences of rearmament, the regime's reaction to the impending crisis, concluding remarks. Epilogue: introduction; class; domestic crisis and war, 1939; 1939-1945.