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Title Work in a modern society : the German historical experience in comparative perspective / edited by Jürgen Kocka.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations.
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Series New German historical perspectives ; v. 3
New German historical perspectives ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-213) and index.
Contents Work as a problem in European history / Jürgen 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 Lüdtke -- 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.
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.
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Language English.
Subject Work -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
Work -- Social aspects.
Europe.
History.
Labor -- Germany -- History.
Labor.
Germany.
Labor -- Europe -- History.
Work -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Work -- Social aspects -- Europe -- Historiography.
Work -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History.
Germany -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Europe -- Social conditions.
Europe -- Economic conditions.
Germany -- Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Social conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
Economic history.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Kocka, Jürgen, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Work in a modern society. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 9781845455750 (DLC) 2009013892 (OCoLC)301893696
ISBN 9781845457976 (electronic book)
1845457978 (electronic book)
9781845455750
1845455754
1282627112
9781282627116
9786612627118
6612627115
Standard No. 9786612627118