Jürgen Kocka

Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society in Modern Germany

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781571811981
• ISBN-10: 1571811982
• Artikelnr.: 33659897

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. From Manufacture to the Factory: Technology amd Workplace
Relations at Siemens,1847-1873
Chapter 2. Family and Bureaucracy in German Industrial Management,
1850-1914: Siemens in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 3. Siemens and the Preventable Rise of AEG
Chapter 4. Entrepreneurship in a Late-Comer Country: the German Case
Chapter 5. The Entrepreneur, the Family, and Capitalism
Chapter 6. German Industrial Entrepreneurs at the End of the 19th and the
Beginning of the 20th Centuries
Chapter 7. Big Business and the Rise of Managerial Capitalism in the late
19th and the early 20th Centuries
Chapter 8. New Energies in the 19th Century: Toward a Social History of the
Electricity Business
Chapter 9. Authoritarian State and Bürgerlichkeit. Toward a History of the
German Bürgertum in the 19th Century
Chapter 10. The Middle Classes in Europe
Chapter 11. The Difficult Rise of a Civil Society: Societal History of
Modern Germany
Bibliography
Index