Work in a modern society [electronic resource] : the German historical experience in comparative perspective / edited by Jurgen Kocka.

Contributor(s): Kocka, Jurgen | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: New German historical perspectives ; v. 3.Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010Description: 221 p. : illSubject(s): 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 conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.3/60943 LOC classification: HD6957.G3 | W67 2010Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Work as a problem in European history / Jurgen 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 Ludtke -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-213) and index.

Work as a problem in European history / Jurgen 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 Ludtke -- 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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