The Corporatist Character of Bismarck's Social Policy

@article{Paur1981TheCC,
  title={The Corporatist Character of Bismarck's Social Policy},
  author={Philip Paur},
  journal={European History Quarterly},
  year={1981},
  volume={11},
  pages={427 - 460}
}
  • Philip Paur
  • Published 1 October 1981
  • History
  • European History Quarterly
It is an irony that the man admired by his compatriots and respected by his contemporaries for the founding of the German Reich should, in the 1880s, have become more acutely discontented with his achievement than anybody else, bar the Social Democrats. And although the latter had pledged themselves in their Leyden Programme of 1881 to use illegal means to promote a socialist revolution, it would seem, on the evidence, that the only 
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