Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction: Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History – Recent Trends and New Perspectives in Current Research 1
6. Chapter 1 The Economy of Love: Welfare and Poor Relief in Catholic Territories of the Holy Roman Empire (1500 to 1800) 23
7. Chapter 2 German Pauper Letters and Petitions for Relief: New Perspectives on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Poor Relief 49
8. Chapter 3 Vagabonds in the German Empire: Mobility, Unemployment and the Transformation of Social Policies (1870–1914) 78
9. Chapter 4 The Welfare State and Poverty in the Weimar Republic 105
10. Chapter 5 Welfare, Mobilization and the Nazi Society 137
11. Chapter 6 Who Cares? Gender, Poverty and Welfare in West Germany 172
12. Chapter 7 A ‘New Social Question’? Politics, Social Sciences and the Rediscovery of Poverty in Post-boom Western Germany 197
13. Chapter 8 The New Poverty: Trends and Debates in Contemporary Germany 225
14. Index 251