The Weimar Republic and the Younger Proletariat: An Economic and Social Analysis

This monograph focuses on the State's role in welfare provision for the younger working class of the cities within the broader context of "Sozialpolitik", a key concept in the development of the Republic in the 1920s.

It aims to construct an economic and social profile with emphasis on its standing in the labour market, vulnerability to unemployment and propensity to crime.;The exposure of these young people to considerable material and socio-psychological deprivation during the Depression of the early 1930s is underlined.

As a "lost generation" out adrift of Weimar's crumbling democratic order, they are seen to have became attracted to political radicalism not for intrisically ideological motives but out of sheer despair and disillusionment.;Dr Stachura's most recent books include "Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism" and "Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany" (editor).