TY  - GEN
T1  - The German worker : working-class autobiographies from the age of industrialization
A2  - Kelly, Alfred, 1947-
LA  - English
LA  - German
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1987
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1034886042
AB  - In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europe's foremost industrial power. The basic facts of increasing industrial output, lengthening railroad lines, urbanization, and rising exports are well known. Behind those facts, in the historical shadows, stand millions of anonymous men and women: the workers who actually put down the railroad ties, hacked out the coal, sewed the shirt collars, printed the books, or carried the bricks that made Germany a great nation. This book contains translated selections from the autobiographies of nineteen of those now-forgotten millions. The thirteen men and six women who speak from these pages afford an intimate firsthand look at how massive social and economic changes are reflected on a personal level in the everyday lives of workers. Although some of these autobiographies are familiar to specialists in German labor history, they are virtually unknown and inaccessible to the broader audience they deserve. This book provides translations that are at once useful, interesting, and entertaining to a wide range of historians, students, and general readers.
OP  - 438
NO  - Includes index.
CN  - HD8453.A1
SN  - 9780520908499
SN  - 052090849X
SN  - 9780520059726
SN  - 0520059727
SN  - 9780520061248
SN  - 0520061241
SN  - 0520059727 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0520061241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
KW  - Working class : Germany : Biography.
KW  - Working class : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Proletariat : History.
KW  - Germany : Economic conditions : 19th century.
KW  - Germany : Social conditions.
KW  - Travailleurs : Allemagne : Biographies.
KW  - Travailleurs : Allemagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Prolétariat : Histoire.
KW  - Allemagne : Conditions économiques : 19e siècle.
KW  - Allemagne : Conditions sociales.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Social Scientists & Psychologists.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : General.
KW  - Working class
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Proletariat
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Germany
KW  - Arbeidersklasse.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Working classes : Social conditions : History
KW  - Academic Dissertation
KW  - dissertations.
KW  - Academic theses
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Academic theses.
KW  - Thèses et écrits académiques.
ER  -