Social Democracy and the Working Class in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Germany

by Berger, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9780582298156
• ISBN10: 0582298156
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	x
Author's Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction	1	(18)
Structure of the book	2	(5)
The bringing together of labour movement and working-class history	7	(3)
The development of the SPD in the context of European Social Democracy	10	(2)
GDR and GRG historiography: trapped by finalistic narratives	12	(2)
The demise of Communism and the triumphalism of liberal capitalism	14	(2)
The labour movement and the project of capitalist modernisation	16	(3)
The Origins of Social Democratic Identity, 1789--1875	19	(35)
Industrialisation and the origins of wage labour	22	(3)
Nineteenth-Century working-class lives	25	(2)
Early forms of working-class protest	27	(2)
Working-class women	29	(4)
Attempts to organise workers: insurrections, journeymen's organisations and workers' educational associations	33	(6)
1848, the Brotherhood of Workers and middle-class anxieties	39	(3)
Liberals, Christians, Conservatives and Socialists	42	(4)
The crisis of German Lib-Labism in the 1860s	46	(2)
Social Democratic working-class parties and the beginnings of trade unionism	48	(6)
Between Isolation and Integration, 1871--1918	54	(40)
Industrialisation and the continued heterogeneity of working-class lives	56	(7)
Women at work and in politics	63	(3)
The `born proletariat' and the diversity of working-class identities: Eigen-Sinn, Christianity and ethnicity	66	(6)
The Anti-Socialist Law and its consequences	72	(4)
Labour movement culture	76	(3)
The SPD between isolation and integration	79	(9)
Social Democratic internationalism and the First World War	88	(6)
In Defence of the Republican State, 1918--1933	94	(42)
The revolution of 1918--19	94	(8)
The labour movement divided: Communists and Social Democrats	102	(10)
The heyday of anarcho-syndicalism	112	(3)
The Catholic labour movement	115	(1)
Stumbling stones on the SPD's road towards becoming a catch-all party	116	(5)
Social Democracy and the `woman question'	121	(3)
Corporatism, Fordism and economic democracy	124	(6)
Social Democracy and the rise of Nazism	130	(6)
Social Democracy under Conditions of Illegality, 1933--1989	136	(42)
Resistance to National Socialism	138	(4)
Workers and the Nazi state	142	(9)
Exile politics	151	(3)
Communists and Social Democrats after 1945	154	(8)
SED and workers in the socialist state	162	(7)
From campaigns against Social Democracy to the Social Democratisation of the SED	169	(3)
The rebirth of Social Democracy from among the citizens' movement	172	(3)
The Party of Democratic Socialism	175	(3)
From Golden Age to the End of Social Democracy? The FRG, 1945--1998	178	(41)
Social Democracy and the German Left after the war: continuities and discontinuities	180	(5)
Remaking the SPD in the long years of opposition, 1949--1966	185	(5)
The deproletarianisation of West German society	190	(5)
The Grand Coalition, 1966--1969	195	(3)
The social-liberal coalition, 1969--1982	198	(4)
New converts? The SPD, the middle classes and organised religion	202	(3)
Social Democracy and the challenge of the Green Party	205	(2)
Intra-party divisions and the struggle between modernisers and traditionalists in the SPD	207	(5)
Social Democracy and the challenges of neo-liberalism	212	(4)
Social Democracy and the reunification of Germany	216	(1)
1998: towards a renaissance of Social Democracy?	217	(2)
Conclusion	219	(14)
Social Democracy and the nation state	219	(4)
Social Democracy as party of government and as social movement	223	(2)
The German labour movement and its Western European context	225	(2)
Remaking Social Democracy in the 1990s	227	(2)
Social Democracy and the `woman question'	229	(4)
Select Bibliographical Essay	233	(18)
Maps	251	(5)
Index	256