Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society in Modern Germany

Jürgen Kocka holds the chair for the History of the Industrial World at the Free University Berlin and is a permanent Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. He is a member of the Academia Europaea Cambridge and of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In 1992 he received the Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

"For students ... this is a good introduction ... The assorted essays ... successfully present Kocka's methodological emphases and his wide-ranging contributions to modern German social history."  · Enterprise & Society"This fine volume brings together essays by one of the leading modern German historians, essays that give the reader an impressive overview of his work from three decades and introduce new generations of students to central questions of modern German social history."  · Central European History"... a tour de force of societal history, reminding one both of how many insights Kocka has generated through application of Weberian analytical tools."  · H-Net Reviews (H-W-Civ)"... a good introduction ... the assorted essays ... successfully present Kocka's methodological emphases and his wide-ranging contributions to modern German social history."  · Enterprise & Society"... a seminal, critically important, uniquely informative contribution to the study of German history, business, entrepreneurship, and the working class."  · The Midwest Book Review

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. From Manufacture to the Factory: Technology amd Workplace Relations at Siemens,1847-1873Chapter 2. Family and Bureaucracy in German Industrial Management, 1850-1914: Siemens in Comparative PerspectiveChapter 3. Siemens and the Preventable Rise of AEGChapter 4. Entrepreneurship in a Late-Comer Country: the German CaseChapter 5. The Entrepreneur, the Family, and CapitalismChapter 6. German Industrial Entrepreneurs at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th CenturiesChapter 7. Big Business and the Rise of Managerial Capitalism in the late 19th and the early 20th CenturiesChapter 8. New Energies in the 19th Century: Toward a Social History of the Electricity BusinessChapter 9. Authoritarian State and Bürgerlichkeit. Toward a History of the German Bürgertum in the 19th CenturyChapter 10. The Middle Classes in EuropeChapter 11. The Difficult Rise of a Civil Society: Societal History of Modern GermanyBibliographyIndex