German Worker - Working-Class Autobiographies From the Age of Industrialization

List of contents

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
A Note about Currencies    
Introduction

Karl Fischer, Railroad Excavator    
Ottilie Baader, Seamstress    
Franz Bergg, Apprentice Waiter    
Wenzel Holek, Brickyard Worker    
Adelheid Popp, Factory Worker    
Doris Viersbeck, Cook and House Maid    
Nikolaus Osterroth, Clay Miner    
Franz Rehbein, Farm Worker    
A City Man on a Farm    
Moritz Bromme, Woodworker and Metalworker    
A Barmaid    
Otto Krille, Factory Worker    
Ernst Schuchardt, Workhouse Weaver    
Ludwig Turek, Child Tobacco Worker    
Max Lotz, Coal Miner    
Frau Hoffmann, Retired Maid    
Eugen May, Turner    
Aurelia Roth, Glass Grinder    
Fritz Pauk, Cigar Maker    

Suggestions for Further Reading in English    
Index   

Summary

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. This book contains translated selections from the autobiographies of nineteen of those now-forgotten millions.

Product details

• Authors: A. Kelly, Alfred Kelly
• Assisted by: Alfred Kelly (Editor), Kelly Alfred (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.1987
• EAN: 9780520061248
• ISBN: 978-0-520-06124-8
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Social and cultural history, Sociology: work & labour, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General