N94 - Regional and Urban History: Europe: 1913-Návrat zpět

The article focuses on changes of social development in post-Munich Czechoslovakia and analyses some new trends of social policy in this period. The particular attention is paid to work camps and its role in social policy of Second Czechoslovak Republic. The work camps should serve not only to decreasing of unemployment, but also to education its members and to agitation for values of new republic. The establishment of work camps in post-Munich era was associated with an suppressing elements of the market economy. The article shows that the service to the nation was presented as the key principle of public life in the Second Republic. The establishment of the work camps was the indication of new tendencies of Czechoslovak social and economic policy.