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 but also introduces the reader to ongoing research in this field.
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Work in a Modern Society
The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editorial Preface
- 1 Work as a Problem in European History
- 2 Discourses on Work and Labour in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany
- 3 Beginnings of the Anthropology of Work: Nineteenth-Century Social Scientists and Their Influence on Ethnography
- 4 The Vision(s) of Work in the Nineteenth-Century German Labour Movement
- 5 Work in Gender, Gender in Work: The German Case in Comparative Perspective
- 6 Trust as Work
- 7 Soldiering and Working: Almost the Same? Reviewing Practices in Industry and the Military in Twentieth-Century Contexts
- 8 Forced Labour in the Second World War: The German Case and Responsibility
- 9 Work, Max Weber, Confucianism: The Confucian Ethic and the Spirit of Japanese Capitalism
- 10 What is Global Labour History Good For?
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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