Under the term "Hilfe zur Arbeit" (aid for work) the federal law of social welfare subsumes all kinds of labour disciplining instruments. First, the paper shows the historical connection of welfare and labour disciplining mechanisms in the context of different periods within capitalist...

It will be presented the German Bertelsmann-Foundation which belongs to one of the world-wide biggest media companies. The enterprise-foundation exerts an important influence on several social reform movements in Germany. Doing this, the Bertelsmann-Foundation succeeds in integrating...

The German educational system passes through a lasting conversion under the aegis of terms like "market", "competition", and "personal responsibility". As a result the rapport of corporate and individual responsibility will be reversed: education solely becomes a resource of individual...