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Work in a modern society : the German historical experience in comparative perspective / edited by Jurgen Kocka.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New German historical perspectives ; v. 3.
- New German historical perspectives ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Work--Social aspects--Germany--History.
- Work.
- Work--Social aspects--Europe--History.
- Labor--Germany--History.
- Labor.
- Labor--Europe--History.
- Work--Social aspects--Germany--Historiography.
- Work--Social aspects--Europe--Historiography.
- Germany--Social conditions.
- Germany.
- Germany--Economic conditions.
- Europe--Social conditions.
- Europe.
- Europe--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Whereas the history of workers and labor movements has been widely researched, the history of work has been rather neglected by comparison. This volume offers original contributions that deal with cultural, social and theoretical aspects of the history of work in modern Europe, including the relations between gender and work, working and soldiering, work and trust, constructions and practices. The volume focuses on Germany but also places the case studies in a broader European context. It thus offers an insight into social and cultural history as practiced by German-speaking scholars today
- Contents:
- Work as a problem in European history / Jurgen Kocka
- Discourses on work and labour in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Germany / Josef Ehmer
- Beginnings of the anthropology of work : nineteenth-century social scientists and their influence on ethnography / Gerd Spittler
- The vision(s) of work in the nineteenth-century German labour movement / Thomas Welskopp
- Work in gender, gender in work : the German case in comparative perspective / Karin Hausen
- Trust as work / Ute Frevert
- Soldiering and working : almost the same? Reviewing practices in industry and the military in twentieth-century contexts / Alf Ludtke
- Forced labour in the Second World War : the German case and responsibility / Klaus Tenfelde
- Work, Max Weber, Confucianism : the Confucian ethic and the spirit of Japanese capitalism / Sebastian Conrad
- What is global labour history good for? / Andreas Eckert.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-188-8
- 1-282-62711-2
- 9786612627118
- 1-84545-797-8
- OCLC:
- 645101225
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