Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society

Jurgen 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.

Jurgen Kocka holds a Chair for the History of the Industrial World at the Free University Berlin.

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Introduction: The Quest for an Integrative History of Industrial Society	p. ix
From Manufactory to Factory: Technology and Workplace Relations at Siemens, 1847-1873	p. 1
Family and Bureaucracy in German Industrial Management, 1850-1914: Siemens in Comparative Perspective	p. 27
Managerial Blockade: Siemens and the Preventable Rise of AEG	p. 51
Entrepreneurship in a Latecomer Country: The German Case	p. 70
The Entrepreneur, the Family, and Capitalism: Examples from the Early Phase of German Industrialization	p. 103
Salaried Entrepreneurs in German Industry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	p. 139
Big Business and the Rise of Managerial Capitalism: Germany in International Comparison	p. 156
New Energies in the Nineteenth Century: Toward a Social History of the Electricity Business	p. 174
Middle Class and Authoritarian State: Toward a History of the German "Burgertum" in the Nineteenth Century	p. 192
Social Mobility and the Formation of the Working Class	p. 208
The Middle Classes in Europe	p. 231
The First World War and the "Mittelstand": German Artisans and White-Collar Workers	p. 255
The Difficult Rise of a Civil Society: Modern Germany 1800-1990	p. 275
Selected Bibliography	p. 298
Index	p. 311
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