Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles) ISSN (Print) 0266-3554 - ISSN (Online) 1477-089X Published by Oxford University Press[409 journals]
Authors:Berger S. Pages: 277 - 294 Abstract: AbstractThis article introduces the Special Issue and contextualizes it within recent developments in the field of German labour history. PubDate: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz038 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Schmidt J. Pages: 295 - 313 Abstract: AbstractWhile generational and biographical approaches are well-established methods in historical scholarship, life-course approaches are less prominent. This article seeks to bridge that gap by applying all these methods to an examination of the early membership of the German labour movement in the 1860s and 1870s. It considers whether we can interpret the rise of the labour movement in the nineteenth century as a generational phenomenon and explain it in light of (work) experiences that were life-phase specific. We see that while life-course experiences were more decisive than generational factors for the making of the movement, the retrospective identification of a founding generation was significant for the creation of the identity of a united labour movement in the years of the Kaiserreich. PubDate: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz039 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Welskopp T. Pages: 314 - 326 Abstract: AbstractThe article explores the origins of trade unions in the nineteenth-century industrializing German economy. In German territories—in contrast to the United Kingdom and the United States—the labour movement emerged as a political movement, from which trade unions developed relatively late, under the auspices of Social Democratic Party initiatives, remaining under threat throughout the 1870s. We therefore have particular reason to examine the sociological foundations that account for the development of German trade unions in general, which is done here with a broad comparative perspective. PubDate: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz035 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Hoffrogge R. Pages: 327 - 344 Abstract: AbstractGermany and Britain have served as models of either corporatist or voluntarist industrial relations. The more recent typology of ‘varieties of capitalism’ then identified Britain as a model case of a ‘liberal market economy’ while Germany was portrayed as a (state) ‘co-ordinated market economy’. The mainstream of German-language labour history also tells this success story. Some research on the evolution of co-determination has portrayed its subject as a long-standing trait of German capitalism, with predecessors dating back as far as 1848. With its focus on the history of two key trade unions in core industries of Britain and Germany, the British metalworkers’ union the Amalgamated Society of Engineers / Amalgamated Engineering Union and the German Metal Workers’ Union / IG Metall, this article questions both exceptionalism and continuity. It argues that a path dependency exists in the structure of both unions and the industrial relations around them—but that this never came close to a linear evolution of voluntarism or corporatism. On closer examination, the history of both unions includes localist as well as centralist practices. From the 1890s both unions were part of collective bargaining with strong employers’ associations; especially after 1945 both were open to corporatist compromises. For West Germany only, such a compromise was found in the early 1950s, and not before, while in Britain that same compromise was attempted but failed during the crucial years between 1965 and 1979. Therefore, to quote Stefan Berger, this article argues that ‘similarities between the British and the German labour movements have been underestimated’. PubDate: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz037 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Bluma L. Pages: 345 - 358 Abstract: AbstractThis article presents a survey of new approaches in German labour history that deal with the history of the body. It argues that Foucault’s conceptual and historical understanding of biopolitics enables a profound rearticulation of the history of industrial work and the process of industrialization. The article addresses, however, not only the possibilities of biopolitics but also its limitations for a reconceptualization of labour history. The methodical and theoretical discussion is linked to concrete research into the body history of German coal mining in the Ruhr. PubDate: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz040 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Raphael L. Pages: 359 - 373 Abstract: AbstractThe spread of computer technology in West German industry during the 1980s and 1990s dramatically changed the demand for skilled and unskilled work in manufacturing. As a result the knowledge used in production was redefined and reformers pushed for radical reform in vocational and general education. In these decades a corporate agreement across trade unions, associations of employers and state bureaucracy brought about a series of adaptive reforms of existing apprenticeships and the creation of new apprenticeships in new branches. This survival of the dual system is analysed as part of the strategies of modernizing West German manufacturing industries. Both employers and trade unions defended the central role of skilled workers in the new system of flexible quality production that developed during this period of rapid technological change. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel and from other sources enable analysis of the social effects of this economically successful strategy. They show the large-scale use of skilled workers in industrial production and their opportunities for upward mobility and additional qualifications. At the same time unskilled workers, and unskilled migrant workers in particular, experienced greater risks of unemployment and increased job uncertainty. PubDate: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz036 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Kritter S. Pages: 375 - 391 Abstract: AbstractHistory museums in old industrial regions are important agents in the current debate on how we perceive work in our society. One of their key issues is how work built the region and how it changed in the context of deindustrialization. The article explores the depictions of work in the Ruhr Museum, which is the central regional history museum of the foremost region of heavy industry in Germany. It shows that with few exceptions the representations of the past in this museum include only images of standardized male industrial work, mainly in the coal and steel industries. Furthermore, it demonstrates that in the sections of the museum dedicated to the present, work has disappeared almost entirely from the representations, to be replaced with representations of culture, including industrial heritage, and lifestyles. In light of these findings the article argues that this way of presenting (and not presenting) work emphasizes the break between the past and the present. It homogenizes the historical narrative of work while making current work forms invisible and downplaying the continuing importance of the world of work. Instead, the museum tells a story of loss that requires compensation by culture. PubDate: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz044 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Renaud T. Pages: 392 - 404 Abstract: Daniel Bessner, Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018)Jens Hacke, Existenzkrise der Demokratie. Zur politischen Theorie des Liberalismus in der Zwischenkriegszeit (Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2018)Philipp Heß, Ein deutscher Amerikaner. Der kosmopolitische Demokrat Hans Simons 1893–1972 (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018)Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018) PubDate: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz024 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Scott T. Pages: 405 - 406 Abstract: Verhandelte Stadt: Herrschaft und Gemeinde in der frühen Urbanisierung des Oberelsass vom 12. bis 14. Jahrhundert. By ZeilingerGabriel. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke. 2018. 271 pp. €40.00 (hardback). PubDate: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz055 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Whitmer K. Pages: 406 - 408 Abstract: Kindheit und Emotion: Kinder und ihre Lebenswelten in der Europäischen Frühen Neuzeit. By Claudia Jarzebowski. Berlin and Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 2018. 352 pp. €89.95 (hardback). PubDate: Sun, 19 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz027 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Panzer S. Pages: 410 - 412 Abstract: Explorations and Entanglements: Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I. Edited by BerghoffHartmut, BiessFrank, and StrasserUlrike. New York, NY and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2019. Viii + 324 pp. £85.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz051 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Hare J. Pages: 412 - 414 Abstract: Germany’s Ancient Pasts: Archaeology and Historical Interpretation since 1700. By ManerBrent. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2018. 336 pp. $40.00 (softback). PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz033 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:James L. Pages: 417 - 420 Abstract: Absolute War: Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792–1820. By Mark Hewitson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. 318 pp. £65.00 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz047 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Gabriel E. Pages: 420 - 422 Abstract: August Bebel: Social Democracy and the Founding of the Labour Movement. By SchmidtJürgen. Translated by BrocksChristine. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. 2019. Xiv + 225 pp. £85.00 (hardback). PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz032 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Hsia K. Pages: 426 - 428 Abstract: Workers and Nationalism: Czech and German Social Democracy in Habsburg Austria, 1890–1918. By BenešJakub S.. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2017. 288 pp. £66.00 (hardback). PubDate: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz043 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Jones M. Pages: 428 - 429 Abstract: Inside World War One' The First World War and Its Witnesses. Edited by BesselRichardand WierlingDorothee. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. Ix + 346 pp. £80.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz045 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Kelz R. Pages: 429 - 432 Abstract: To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society. By Benjamin Bryce. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2018. Viii + 223 pp. $65.00 (hardback). PubDate: Sun, 19 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz022 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Black M. Pages: 432 - 434 Abstract: Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918–1965. By O’SullivanMichael E.. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press. 2018. 344 pp. $60.00 (hardback) PubDate: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz042 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Ruff M. Pages: 434 - 436 Abstract: Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980. By William L. Patch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. 331 pp. £75.00 (hardback). PubDate: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz049 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Jones L. Pages: 436 - 437 Abstract: Right-Wing Politics and the Rise of Antisemitism in Europe 1935–1941. Edited by Frank Bajohr and Dieter Pohl. European Holocaust Studies, Vol. 1. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. 2019. 267 pp. €38.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz053 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Freimüller T. Pages: 438 - 439 Abstract: The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi. By Johann Chapoutot. Translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot. Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 2018. 504 pp. $ 35.00 (hardback). PubDate: Sun, 19 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz026 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Griech-Polelle B. Pages: 439 - 441 Abstract: German Catholicism at War, 1939–1945. By Thomas Brodie. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. 288 pp. £65.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz048 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Steege P. Pages: 442 - 443 Abstract: Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the Twentieth Century. By Konrad H. Jarausch. Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2018. Xiii + 446 pp. £27.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz050 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Allen J. Pages: 443 - 445 Abstract: Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories. By KoselleckReinhart. Edited and translated by FranzelSean and HoffmannStefan-Ludwig. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2018. 344 pp. $28.00 (softback). PubDate: Fri, 31 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz028 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Biess F. Pages: 445 - 447 Abstract: Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society. By Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew. London: Bloomsbury. 2018. Xiii + 366 pp. £63.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz046 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Holmgren D. Pages: 447 - 449 Abstract: Einrichten im Übergang: Das Aufnahmelager Gießen (1946–1990). By van LaakJeannette. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag. 2017. 420 pp. €39.95 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz041 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Hurley A. Pages: 449 - 450 Abstract: Soundtracking Germany: Popular Music and National Identity. By SchillerMelanie. London: Rowman and Littlefield. 2018. Ix + 277 pp. £85.00 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz030 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Fabian S. Pages: 451 - 454 Abstract: Alle in Bewegung: Räumliche Mobilität in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1980–2010. By DornRaphael Emanuel. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 2018. 397 pp. € 60.00 (hardback). PubDate: Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz029 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Imlay T. Pages: 454 - 456 Abstract: Willy Brandt and International Relations: Europe, the USA, and Latin America, 1947–1992. Edited by RotherBernd and LarresKlaus. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2019. Xi + 237 pp. $114.00 (hardback). PubDate: Fri, 17 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz023 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
Authors:Prestel J. Pages: 456 - 458 Abstract: Zeitenwende 1979: Als die Welt von heute begann. By BöschFrank. Munich: C.H. Beck. 2019. 512 pp. €28.00 (hardback). PubDate: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/gerhis/ghz052 Issue No:Vol. 37, No. 3 (2019)
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