Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany

by Peter D. Stachura (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this volume, which are written by scholars from West Germany, Canada, Australia and Britain, provide on the basis of considerable original research a penetrating analysis and fresh insights into the impact of unemployment, including its broader social and political implications, on the crisis of certain social groups, including medical doctors, women and the younger generation, the trade unions and government, is assessed together with the endeavors of radical political parties to exploit the situation for their own ends. The book as a whole therefore aims to help fill an obvious gap in the historiography of the Weimar Republic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333376461
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/08/1986
Edition description:	1986
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: The Development of Unemployment in Modern German History; P.D.Stachura - The Extent and Causes of Unemployment in the Weimar Republic; D.Petzina - Physicians in Crisis at the End of the Weimar Republic; M.H.Kater - Unemployment also Hits Women: The New and the Old Woman on the Dark Side of the Golden Twenties in Germany; K.Hausen - The Social and Welfare Implications of Youth Unemployment in Weimar Germany, 1929-33; P.D.Stachura - The German Free Trade Unions and the Problem of Mass Unemployment in the Weimar Republic; J.A.Moses - The Development of State Work Creation Policy in Germany, 1930-33; M.Schneider - Unemployment and the Radicalisation of the German Electroate, 1928-33: An Aggregate Data Analysis with Special Emphasis on the Rise of National Socialism; J.W.Falter - Unemployment and Left-Wing Radicalism in Weimar Germany, 1930-33; C.J.Fischer - Index