Die Silikose wird durch die Inhalation feiner Staubpartikel bei der Arbeit unter Tage verursacht. Die betroffenen Bergleute leiden unter erheblichen körperlichen Einschränkungen und in vielen Fällen führt die Krankheit zum Tod durch Ersticken. Christian Schürmann befasst sich mit der...

The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy-successful at the outset-in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class...

L. Leisering: Introduction -- M. G. Schmidt: Social Policy in the German Democratic Republic: Introduction.- "Socialist Social Policy" -- The Institutions of Social Policy in the GDR -- The Politics of Social Policy Under the Socialist Regime -- The Welfare State as Political Process: From...

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia....