Social Care under State Socialism (1945-1989) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Care under State Socialism (1945-1989) write by Sabine Hering. This book was released on 2009-06-17. Social Care under State Socialism (1945-1989) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the period of State Socialism in Eastern Europe (1945- 1989) Social Welfare was exercised on two levels: The dominant level was the system of governmental Social Policy, because individual and private structures of so - cial help were considered as a dispensable bourgeois tradition. According to this perception, social welfare should include an extensive system of support and social services, although, in reality, special groups of ́ ́asocials ́ ́ and ́ ́parasites ́ ́ were excluded. Although - except for Yugoslavia - social work as a profession was nearly totally eliminated, modulated forms of social care had to be provided, because people like handicapped, elderly or mentally disabled still were in need. There - fore, Social Care was realised on a subordinated level - mostly allocated to proximate vocations or organisations like teachers, nurses and mass organisations. Experts from the respective countries explain what it was like. Countries under scrutiny: Bulgaria, Czechoslowakia, GDR, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia
Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989
Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989 write by Marsha Siefert. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Labor regimes under communism in East-Central Europe were complex, shifting, and ambiguous. This collection of sixteen essays offers new conceptual and empirical ways to understand their history from the end of World War II to 1989, and to think about how their experiences relate to debates about labor history, both European and global. The authors reconsider the history of state socialism by re-examining the policies and problems of communist regimes and recovering the voices of the workers who built them. The contributors look at work and workers in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. They explore the often contentious relationship between politics and labor policy, dealing with diverse topics including workers’ safety and risks; labor rights and protests; working women’s politics and professions; migrant workers and social welfare; attempts to control workers’ behavior and stem unemployment; and cases of incomplete, compromised, or even abandoned processes of proletarianization. Workers are presented as active agents in resisting and supporting changes in labor policies, in choosing allegiances, and in defining the very nature of work.
Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, 1945-2020
Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, 1945-2020 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, 1945-2020 write by Tomasz Inglot. This book was released on 2022-11-29. Mothers, Families or Children? Family Policy in Poland, Hungary, and Romania, 1945-2020 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on “mother-orientation” in Poland, “family orientation” in Hungary, and “child-orientation” in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and contingent clusters of benefits and services in each country and trace their development across time and under different political regimes, before and after 1989. It also examines and compares policy continuity and change with special attention to institutions, ideas, and actors involved in decision making and reform. As family policies continue to evolve in the era of European Union membership and new governmental and societal actors emerge, this study reveals mechanisms that help preserve core family policy clusters while allowing reform in contingent ones in each country.
The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State
The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State write by Manfred G. Schmidt. This book was released on 2012-11-15. The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of social policy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990), followed by an analysis of the “Social Union”, the transformation of social policy in the process of German unification in 1990. Schmidt’s analysis of the GDR also depicts commonalities and differences between the welfare state in East and West Germany as well as in other East European and Western countries. He concludes that the GDR was unable to cope with the trade-off between ambitious social policy goals and a deteriorating economic performance. Ritter embeds his analysis of the Social Union in a general study of German unification, its international circumstances and its domestic repercussions (1989-1994). He argues that social policy played a pivotal role in German unification, and that there was no alternative to extending the West German welfare state to the East. Ritter, a distinguished historian, bases his contribution on an award-winning study for which he drew on archival sources and interviews with key actors. Schmidt is a distinguished political scientist.
The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century
The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century write by Włodzimierz Borodziej. This book was released on 2020-04-21. The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Statehood examines the extending lines of development of nation-state systems in Eastern Europe, in particular considering why certain tendencies in state development found a different expression in this region compared to other parts of the continent. This volume discusses the differences between the social developments, political decisions, and historical experience that have influenced processes of state-building, with a focus on the structural problems of the region and the different paths taken to overcome them. The book addresses processes of building social orders and examines the contribution of state institutions to social and cultural integration and disintegration. It analyses institutional and personnel continuities that have outlasted the great political changes of the twentieth century and addresses the expansion of state activity in shaping property relations in agriculture and industry as well as in social security and family politics. Taking a comparative approach based on experiential history, allowing individual experience to be detached from specific national references, the volume delineates a transnational comparison of problems shared within the region as they have been passed down through history, providing definition to the specificity of Eastern Europe and situating the historical experience of the region within a pan-European context. The second in a four-volume set on Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century, it is the go-to resource for those interested in statehood and state-building in this complex region.
