Work in a modern society
Subtitle: the German historical experience in comparative perspective
By: edited by Jürgen Kocka.
Contributors: Kocka, Jürgen.
Series: New German historical prospectives -- v. 3
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781845455750
Subjects: Work -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History; Work -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History; Labor -- Germany -- History; Labor -- Europe -- History; Work -- Social aspects -- Germany -- Historiography; Work -- Social aspects -- Europe -- Historiography; Germany -- Social conditions; Germany -- Economic conditions; Europe -- Social conditions; Europe -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Work as a problem in European history / Jürgen Kocka; title: Discourses on work and labour in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Germany / Josef Ehmer; title: Beginnings of the anthropology of work : nineteenth-century social scientists and their influence on ethnography / Gerd Spittler; title: The vision(s) of work in the nineteenth-century German labour movement / Thomas Welskopp; title: Work in gender, gender in work : the German case in comparative perspective / Karin Hausen; title: Trust as work / Ute Frevert; title: Soldiering and working : almost the same? Reviewing practices in industry and the military in twentieth-century contexts / Alf Lüdtke; title: Forced labour in the Second World War : the German case and responsibility / Klaus Tenfelde; title: Work, Max Weber, Confucianism : the Confucian ethic and the spirit of Japanese capitalism / Sebastian Conrad; title: What is global labour history good for? / Andreas Eckert.