Format:
Online-Ressource (221 p.)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781845455750
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9781282627116
Series Statement:
New German historical perspectives v. 3
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-213) and index
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Work in a Modern Society; Table of Contents; Editorial Preface; Chapter 1: Work as a Problem in European History; Chapter 2: Discourses on Work and Labour in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany; Chapter 3: Beginnings of the Anthropology of Work; Chapter 4: The Vision(s) of Work in the Nineteenth-Century German Labour Movement; Chapter 5: Work in Gender, Gender in Work; Chapter 6: Trust as Work; Chapter 7: Soldiering and Working; Chapter 8: Forced Labour in the Second World War; Chapter 9: Work, Max Weber, Confucianism; Chapter 10: What is Global Labour History Good For?; Bibliography
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Notes on ContributorsIndex
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845457976
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1845455754
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845455750
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Work in a Modern Society : The German Experience in European-American Perspective
Language:
English
URL:
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