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- Title
„Florida-Rolf" lässt grüßen: Soziale Dämonen, Auslandssozialhilfe und die Debatte um den Wohlfahrtsstaat in der Ära Schröder.
- Authors
Rieger, Bernhard
- Abstract
During the debate on Agenda 2010 the Bild newspaper turned social assistance recipient and Florida resident Rolf J. into a symbol of welfare state dysfunction in order to emphasise calls for reforms. After a historical reconstruction of social assistance paid abroad as a special German welfare state practice, Bernhard Rieger analyses the campaign initiated by Bild against "Florida-Rolf" and other "social spongers". The focus on unemployed men who often lived in unconventional family constellations reinforced the impression that existing welfare legislation eroded conventional norms of masculinity, intensified an ominous crisis of working society and required fundamental reforms in order to strengthen work ethics.
- Subjects
FLORIDA; DEMONOLOGY; WELFARE state; MASCULINITY; PUBLIC welfare; REFORMS; UNEMPLOYED people; WORK ethic; NEWSPAPERS; SIGNS &; symbols
- Publication
Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 2, p361
- ISSN
0042-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/vfzg-2022-0020