ISBN:
9780582298149
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (295 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Themes In Modern German History
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Democracy and the Working Class : in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany
DDC:
305.5/62/0943
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This is a powerful and original survey of German social democracy breaks new ground in covering the movement's full span, from its origins after the French Revolution, to the present day. Stefan Berger looks beyond narrow party political history to relate Social Democracy to other working class identities in the period and sets the German experience within its wider European context. This timely book considers both the background and long-term perspective on the current rethinking of Social Democratic ideas and values, not only in Germany but also in France, Britain and elsewhere
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Author's Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Structure of the book; The bringing together of labour movement and working-class history; The development of the SPD in the context of European Social Democracy; GDR and FRG historiography: trapped by finalistic narratives; The demise of Communism and the triumphalism of liberal capitalism; The labour movement and the project of capitalist modernisation; 2. The Origins of Social Democratic Identity, 1789-1875
Description / Table of Contents:
Industrialisation and the origins of wage labourNineteenth-Century working-class lives; Early forms of working-class protest; Working-class women; Attempts to organise workers: insurrections, journeymen's organisations and workers' educational associations; 1848, the Brotherhood of Workers and middle-class anxieties; Liberals, Christians, Conservatives and Socialists; The crisis of German Lib-Labism in the 1860s; Social Democratic working-class parties and the beginnings of trade unionism; 3. Between Isolation and Integration, 1871-1918
Description / Table of Contents:
Industrialisation and the continued heterogeneity of working-class livesWomen at work and in politics; The 'born proletariat' and the diversity of working-class identities: Eigen-Sinn, Christianity and ethnicity'; The Anti-Socialist Law and its consequences; Labour movement culture; The SPD between isolation and integration; Social Democratic internationalism and the First World War; 4. In Defence of the Republican State, 1918-1933; The revolution of 1918-19; The labour movement divided: Communists and Social Democrats; The heyday of anarcho-syndicalism; The Catholic labour movement
Description / Table of Contents:
Stumbling stones on the SPD's road towards becoming a catch-all partySocial Democracy and the 'woman question'; Corporatism, Fordism and economic democracy; Social Democracy and the rise of Nazism; 5. Social Democracy under Conditions of Illegality, 1933-1989; Resistance to National; Workers and the Nazi state; Exile politics; Communists and Social Democrats after 1945; SED and workers in the socialist state; From campaigns against Social Democracy to the Social Democratisation of the SED; The rebirth of Social Democracy from among the citizens' movement; The Party of Democratic Socialism
Description / Table of Contents:
6. From Golden Age to the End of Social Democracy? The FRG, 1945-1998Social Democracy and the German Left after the war: continuities and discontinuities; Remaking the SPD in the long years of opposition, 1949-1966; The deproletarianisation of West German society; The Grand Coalition, 1966-1969; The social-liberal coalition, 1969-1982; New converts? The SPD, the middle classes and organised religion; Social Democracy and the challenge of the Green Party; Intra-party divisions and the struggle between modernisers and traditionalists in the SPD
Description / Table of Contents:
Social Democracy and the challenges of neo-liberalism
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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