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German Worker Working-Class Autobiographies from the Age of Industrialization

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ISBN-10: 0520061241

ISBN-13: 9780520061248

Edition: 1990

Authors: Alfred Kelly

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Description:

In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europe's foremost industrial power. The basic facts of increasing industrial output, lengthening railroad lines, urbanization, and rising exports are well known. Behind those facts, in the historical shadows, stand millions of anonymous men and women: the workers who actually put down the railroad ties, hacked out the coal, sewed the shirt collars, printed the books, or carried the bricks that made Germany a great nation. This book contains translated selections from the autobiographies of nineteen of those now-forgotten millions. The thirteen men and six women who speak from these pages afford an intimate firsthand look at how…    
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Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/20/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English