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Online-Ressource
ISSN:
2628-4375
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Abstract: This article sheds light on nurses’ early ventures into union work, it analyses the conditions, circumstances and boundaries the unionisation of psychiatric nurses entailed during the German Reich in the early 20th century. I use the staff files of selected nurses and orderlies from the former Uchtspringe Prussian State Asy-lum to reconstruct case histories of unionised nursing staff. We can say that until the ban on organising was lifted in 1918, the nurses of the “insane” were strictly forbidden to act independently of the institution’s man-agement within a trade union. Nonetheless, there is evidence that a number of nurses and orderlies of Uchtspringe were members of the German Association of Nurses and Orderlies (Deutscher Verband der Krankenpfleger und Krankenpflegerinnen) even before the beginning of the First World War. In 1919, a branch of the Association of Municipal and State Workers (Verband der Gemeinde- und Staatsarbeiter, VGS), which had close ties to the Social Democ.... https://www.enhe.eu/enhe/article/view/11
In:
volume:2
In:
year:2020
In:
European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics, Münster : Fachhochschule Münster, [2019]-, 2 (2020), 2628-4375
Language:
English
DOI:
10.25974/enhe2020-6en
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0009-33-50676
URL:
https://doi.org/10.25974/enhe2020-6en
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https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0009-33-50676
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https://d-nb.info/133646268X/34
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https://www.enhe.eu/enhe/article/view/11/16
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