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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784602603321

Autore

Kovács M. Mária <1953-2020.>

Titolo

Liberal professions and illiberal politics : 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

0-19-771427-7

1-280-55873-3

0-19-535886-4

1-4294-0788-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Disciplina

305.5/53/09439

Soggetti

Professions - Sociological aspects

Professional socialization - Hungary

Hungary Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

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.