Workers' culture in imperial Germany : leisure and recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia / Lynn Abrams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abrams, Lynn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Recreation--Germany--History.

Working class.

Popular culture--Germany--History.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry also provides a major contribution to the social history of working-class life in the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; A Time and Place for Leisure; Time and inclination; The ability to pay; The Industrialization of Popular Culture; The working-class parish fair; Conflicts and resolutions; The segregation of festival culture; Socialist festival culture; Blueprint for the future; The Lubricant of Leisure; Workplace drinking; Drink and the family; Drink and the labour movement; Cultural aid to social stimulant; From the Street to the Stage; The taming of popular entertainment; Tingel-Tangels and music halls; The dance craze; Real entertainment

The Organization of LeisureThe beginnings of associational life; An 'alternative' associational movement; Club life; Spontaneity to organization; The Struggle for Control; Useful pursuits; Lungs of the city; Social reform or social control?; From Control to Commercialization; The rise of the cinema; Commercial culture versus working-class culture; The triumph of commercial culture?; Conclusions: a Working-Class Leisure Culture?; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-90254-9

0-04-445733-2

1-138-00663-7

1-134-90255-7

1-280-32621-2

0-203-18135-2

9780203181355

OCLC:

60311273