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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458228203321

Autore

Kovács M. Mária <1953->

Titolo

Liberal professions and illiberal politics [[electronic resource] ] : Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust / / Mária M. Kovács

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Wilson Center Press

[Oxford], : Oxford University Press, c1994

ISBN

1-280-55873-3

0-19-535886-4

1-4294-0788-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Disciplina

305.5/53/09439

Soggetti

Professions - Sociological aspects

Professional socialization - Hungary

Electronic books.

Hungary Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-161).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables; Glossary: Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Liberalism and Professionalization in the Nineteenth Century; 2. From Professional to Political Ideology, 1900-1919; 3. The Restrictive Reform of the Professions, 1920-1928; 4. The Professions during the Depression; 5. Professions and Discrimination, 1938-1944; Epilogue; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this important new historical study, Maria Kovacs examines the struggle between liberal and anti-Semitic policies among professional groups--doctors, lawyers, engineers--in Hungary. Kovacs's main emphasis is on the interwar period when unemployment, expansion of the welfare system, and competition for state jobs during the Great Depression, combined with crass anti-Semitism on the part of engineers and medical associations, radically altered previously liberal policies of open entry and equal educational opportunity. Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics analyzes to what extent these n