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Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany

Name: Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society Business, Labor, and Bureaucracy in Modern Germany
Author: Jurgen Kocka
ISBN: 9781571811585

by Jurgen Kocka

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Jürgen Kocka is one of the foremost historians of Germany whose work has been devoted to the integration of different genres of the social and economic history of Europe during the period of industrialization. This collection of essays gives a representative sample of his effort to develop, by reference to Marx and Weber, new and powerful analytical tools for understanding the dynamics of modern industrial societies.

About the Author, Jurgen Kocka

Jürgen Kocka holds the chair for the History of the Industrial World at the Free University Berlin and is a permanent Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. He is a member of the Academia Europaea Cambridge and of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In 1992 he received the Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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Countering the trend to segregate economic/business and social history, Kocka (history of the industrial world, Free U. Berlin) presents an integrative history of German industrial society in 13 essays. Featured is his seminal study of the Siemens electrical engineering firm, on the impact of bureaucratic structures and entrepreneurship on family relations. The concluding chapter spans 1800-1990 in presenting "the difficult rise" of modern German civil society. Data tables and figures profile Germany's labor force. Translators are noted for six of the chapters. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)