The Nazi Worker
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The Nazi Worker

The Culture of Work and the End of Class

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

The Nazi Worker

The Culture of Work and the End of Class

About this book

The Nazi Worker is the second in a three-volume project on the figure of the worker and, by extension, questions of class in twentieth-century German culture. It is based on extensive research in the archives and informed by recent debates on the politics of emotion, the end of class, and the future of work. In seven chapters, the book reconstructs the processes by which National Socialism appropriated aspects of working-class culture and socialist politics and translated class-based identifications into the racialized communitarianism of Volksgemeinschaft (folk community). Arbeitertum (workerdom), the operative term within these processes of appropriation, not only established a discursive framework for integrating proletarian legacies into the cult of the German worker. As a social imaginary, workerdom also modelled the work-related emotions (e.g., joy, pride) essential to the culture of work promoted by the German Labor Front. The contribution of images and stories in creating these new social imaginaries will be reconstructed through highly contextualized readings of the debates about workerdom, Nazi movement novels, worker's poetry, workers' sculpture, as well as industrial painting, photography, film, and design.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9783111004754
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Glossary and Abbreviations
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1 From Proletariat to Workerdom, in the Name of the People
  9. Chapter 2 Conversion Stories: Turning Communists into Nazis
  10. Chapter 3 The Revisionist Project of Workers’ Poetry
  11. Chapter 4 The Thingspiel and the Performance of Class
  12. Chapter 5 Pride in Work: On Workers’ Sculpture and Industrial Painting
  13. Chapter 6 Joy in Work: On Industrial Photography and Film
  14. Chapter 7 The German Worker and the Beauty of Labor
  15. Afterword
  16. Index of Names