Abstract
Military and social conscription are often regarded as brother and sister. A discussion about military conscription is often continued with a discussion about social conscription. In this book military conscription is central, however, a sidestep to social conscription is not completely off the mark, because the economic mechanisms that have been described earlier for military conscription are also valid for social conscription. Besides, an analysis of social conscription can shine a light on parts of military conscription, that are no longer important now, but could be important under other conditions.
“Nobody has ever said that it would be easy to make people aware of the luck they get. Neighbourly love does demand the severe, but also justified hand of social conscripts. In this moral combat there will be casualties, that is inevitable. Conscription happens to require warfare”.
Paul Scheffer, NRC-Handelsblad, 16-10-1992, Opinionpage.
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Definition used by the CDJA, the youth organisation of the political party CDA (Christian Democrats). This definition can be found in Dutch in: E.J. Kleingeld en R. Rolleman, Sociale Dienstplicht, dwangarbeid of solidariteit? Utrecht, April 1990, p. 14.
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The following is based on: Geoffrey Barraclough, The Origins of Modern Germany, Oxford, 1976.
Ibid, p. 383.
Ibid, p. 399
Ibid, p. 398–399
Ibid, p. 399
Ibid, pp. 399
William H. McNeill, The Draft in the Light of History, in: Sol Tax, The Draft, chapter 12, pp. 118.
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Duindam, S. (1999). Social conscription. In: Military Conscription. Contributions to Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50005-3_9
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