‘Eley is one of the most interesting, trenchant and controversial historians of Germany.’ Paul Kennedy‘Eley is perhaps the most original and exciting historian working in the field of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German history…’ Richard J. Evans

• 1.Introduction: The Sociological Interpretation of German Labour History Richard J. Evans 2. Working-Class Crime and the Labour Movement: Pilfering the Hamburg Docs, 1888-1923 Michael Grüttner 3. Drink and the Labour Movement: the Schnaps Boycott of 1909 James S. Roberts 4. Steel, Sabotage and Socialism: The Strike at the Dortmund ‘Union’ Steel Works in 1911 David F. Crew 5. Illegitimacy and the Working Class: Illegitimate Mothers in Brunswick, 1900-1933 Stefan Bajohr 6. Organising the ‘Lumpenproletariat’: Cliques and Communists in Berlin During the Weimar Republic Eve Rosenhaft 7. Identifying Militancy: The Assessment of Working Class Attitudes Towards State and Society Dick Geary