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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791371203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-62711-2; 9786612627118; 1-84545-797-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Collana: New German historical perspectives ; ; v. 3
• Altri autori (Persone): KockaJürgen
• Disciplina: 306.360943
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-213) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Work as a problem in European history / Jürgen 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 Lüdtke -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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