The German unemployed: experiences and consequences of mass unemployment from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Introduction: The Experience of Unemployment in the Weimar Republic; 2. Unemployment and Demobilisation in Germany After the First World War; 3. From Welfare Provision to Social Insurance:The Unemployed in Augsburg 1918-27; 4. From Unemployment Insurance to Compulsory Labour: The Transformation of the Benefit System in Germany 1927-33; 5. Frankfurt's Working Women: Scapegoats or Winners of the Great Depression?;Unemployment was perhaps the major problem confronting European society at the time in which this book was first published in 1987, and is arguably still the case today. This collection of essays by British and German historians contributes to the debate by taking a close look at unemployment in the Weimar Republic. What groups were most severely affected, and why? How did they react? How effective were welfare and job creation schemes? Did unemployment fuel social instability and political extremism? How far was unemployment a cause of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the triumph of th. Cover Title Copyright Original Title Original Copyright CONTENTS List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction: The Experience of Unemployment in the Weimar Republic 2. Unemployment and Demobilisation in Germany After the First World War 3. From Welfare Provision to Social Insurance:The Unemployed in Augsburg 1918-27 4. From Unemployment Insurance to Compulsory Labour: The Transformation of the Benefit System in Germany 1927-33 5. Frankfurt's Working Women: Scapegoats or Winners of the Great Depression? 6. Youth Unemployment and the State: Public Policies towards Unemployed Youth in Hamburg during the World Economic Crisis7. The Lost Generation: Youth Unemployment at the End of the Weimar Republic 8. The Unemployed in the Neighbourhood: Social Dislocation and Political Mobilisation in Germany 1929-33 9. Mobilising the Unemployed: The KPD and the Unemployed Workers' Movement in Hamburg-Altona during the Weimar Republic 10. Unemployment and Working-class Solidarity: The German Experience 1929-33. 11. The Third Reich and the Unemployed: National Socialist Work-creation Schemes in Hamburg 1933-4Notes on Contributors Index.