The German worker: working-class autobiographies from the age of industrialization
In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europe's foremost industrial power. The basic facts of increasing industrial output, lengthening railroad lines, urbanization, and rising exports are well known. Behind those facts, in the historical shadows, stand millions of anonymous men and women: the workers who actually put down the railroad ties, hacked out the coal, sewed the shirt collars, printed the books, or carried the bricks that made Germany a great nation. This book c…
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- Full title :The German worker : working-class autobiographies from the age of industrialization / translated, edited, and with an introduction by Alfred Kelly.
Summary
In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europe's foremost industrial power. The basic facts of increasing industrial output, lengthening railroad lines, urbanization, and rising exports are well known. Behind those facts, in the historical shadows, stand millions of anonymous men and women: the workers who actually put down the railroad ties, hacked out the coal, sewed the shirt collars, printed the books, or carried the bricks that made Germany a great nation. This book contains translated selections from the autobiographies of nineteen of those now-forgotten millions. The thirteen men and six women who speak from these pages afford an intimate firsthand look at how massive social and economic changes are reflected on a personal level in the everyday lives of workers. Although some of these autobiographies are familiar to specialists in German labor history, they are virtually unknown and inaccessible to the broader audience they deserve. This book provides translations that are at once useful, interesting, and entertaining to a wide range of historians, students, and general readers.
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- Publication Date:©1987.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of California Press
- Place of Publication:Berkeley
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1987.
Notes
Translated from the German.
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780520908499, 052090849X, 0520059727, 9780520059726, 0520061241, 9780520061248
- oclc:ocm44956454
- LC Classification:HD8453.A1
- Dewey Decimal:305.5/62/0922
Table of Contents
Karl Fischer, railroad excavator -- Ottilie Baader, seamstress -- Franz Bergg, apprentice waiter -- Wenzel Holek, brickyard worker -- Adelheid Popp, factory worker -- Doris Viersbeck, cook and house maid -- Nikolaus Osterroth, clay miner -- Franz Rehbein, farm worker -- A city man on a farm -- Moritz Bromme, woodworker and metalworker -- A barmaid -- Otto Krille, factory worker -- Ernst Schuchardt, workhouse weaver -- Ludwig Turek, child tobacco worker -- Max Lotz, coal miner -- Frau Hoffmann, retired maid -- Eugen May, turner -- Aurelia Roth, glass grinder -- Fritz Pauk, cigar maker.
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