The book examines care work, both past and present: What institutions, initiatives, and concepts in education, housekeeping, social welfare, and health existed 100 years ago, and how did they affect everyday life? What experiences and global challenges are we now confronted with and what possible solutions are there to the current care crisis? The book discusses strategies for nurturing the common good and looks at how we are oriented toward particular family structures and the access we have to social services. It also covers religious initiatives coming out of the Christian and Jewish communities. The book is published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the New Frankfurt program of building and design and the main actors involved in it and appears in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at Museum Angewandte Kunst, which examines the core issues of this reform movement and the influence it had on society. Grit Weber is deputy director and curator at Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main. Matthias Wagner K is a curator, writer, and director of Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main.
