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Dennis Sweeney - Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) - 9780472116782 - V9780472116782
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Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)

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Description for Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) Hardcover. Germany's rise from newly formed nation-state on the European continent to global industrial power during the late 19th and early 20th centuries was propelled by the rapid transformation of its heavy industries, especially coal mining, iron and steel-making, electrical engineering, and chemical production. This book explores this transformation. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Saar river valley was one of the three most productive heavy industrial regions in Germany and one of the main reference points for national debates over the organization of work in large-scale industry. Among Germany's leading opponents of trade unions, Saar employers were revered for their system of factory organization, which was both authoritarian and paternalistic, stressing discipline and punitive measures and seeking to regulate behavior on and off the job. In its repressive and beneficent dimensions, the Saar system provided a model for state labor and welfare policy during much ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472116782
SKU
V9780472116782
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Dennis Sweeney
Dennis Sweeney is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alberta.

Reviews for Work, Race, and the Emergence of Radical Right Corporatism in Imperial Germany (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
"Sweeney's is an ambitious intellectual exercise. In some respects it resembles the Marxist or Marxisant histories of German interest-group politics that were produced in East and West Germany in the 1960s and 1970s; but now, after the cultural turn, the author has resorted to a different set of methodological tools to analyze the influence and significance of these employer ideologoes." ... Read more

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