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.

Acknowledgements



Chapter 1. From Manufacture to the Factory: Technology amd Workplace Relations at Siemens,1847-1873

Chapter 2. Family and Bureaucracy in German Industrial Management, 1850-1914: Siemens in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 3. Siemens and the Preventable Rise of AEG

Chapter 4. Entrepreneurship in a Late-Comer Country: the German Case

Chapter 5. The Entrepreneur, the Family, and Capitalism

Chapter 6. German Industrial Entrepreneurs at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries

Chapter 7. Big Business and the Rise of Managerial Capitalism in the late 19th and the early 20th Centuries

Chapter 8. New Energies in the 19th Century: Toward a Social History of the Electricity Business

Chapter 9. Authoritarian State and Bürgerlichkeit. Toward a History of the German Bürgertum in the 19th Century

Chapter 10. The Middle Classes in Europe

Chapter 11. The Difficult Rise of a Civil Society: Societal History of Modern Germany



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