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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784512103321

Autore

Jarausch Konrad Hugo

Titolo

The unfree professions [[electronic resource] ] : German lawyers, teachers, and engineers, 1900-1950 / / Konrad H. Jarausch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1990

ISBN

0-19-771754-3

1-280-60526-X

0-19-536450-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

331.7120943

331.71209430904

Soggetti

Engineers - Legal status, laws, etc - Germany - History - 20th century

Lawyers - Germany - History - 20th century

Professional employees - Government policy - Germany - History - 20th century

Professions - Government policy - Germany - History - 20th century

Teachers - Legal status, laws, etc - Germany - History - 20th century

Germany Politics and government 1933-1945

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. 263-334) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Tables; 1. Professionalization German Style; I: PROFESSIONS IN CRISIS; II: PROFESSIONALS AS ACCOMPLICES; Appendix A. Statistical Tables; Appendix B. A Note on Sources; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How could educated professionals have supported the Nazi movement and collaborated with Hitler's inhuman policies? Jarausch examines this fascinating and largely unexplored subject, tracing the social, ideological, and political development of three representative German professions--law, teaching, and engineering--from the late Empire to the early Federal Republic. Based on a reformulated professionalization theory and on authoritative statistics, he describes professional prosperity and prestige in the Second Reich and analyzes the social crisis brought on by hyperinflation, stabilization, a