ENGLISH

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

By Jane Caplan , Ursula Vogel , Timothy Wright Mason , John Broadwin

Book information

Publisher
Berg Publishers
Year
1993
ISBN
0854966218, 085496410X, 9780854966219, 9780854964109
LCC
HD8450 .M37213 1993
Open Library ID
OL1392936M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28374384 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
472\472
Topic
History
Library
Internet Archive
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-10-25 04:05:36

Description

Many social and economic historians will be pleased to learn that this pioneering study is at long last available in english translation. This book analyses the attitudes and policies of the nazi leadership towards the german working class. It argues that the regime did not securely integrate the working class and was thus very uncertain of itself when it came to 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. --Jacket.

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