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Workers, Politics and Power in Modern German History: Some Recent Writing on the German Labour Movement and the German Working Class in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

One of the great inspirations for historians of modern Germany during the past two decades has been the rediscovery of the German people, and not least of the German working class. Such a discovery has not been unique to historians of German-speaking central Europe. The historiography of Britain, France, the United States, as well as of just about every other industrialized country, has been vastly enriched by an explosion of interest in the history of working people during recent years. An early focus upon the labour movement and left-wing politics has broadened, as historians have delved into the nature and rhythms of work, working-class culture, housing, family relations and leisure pursuits. Of course there have been German peculiarities: the postwar division of Germany gave rise to a divided history, as East German historians guided by marxism took a keen partisan interest in the history of German working-class politics, while West German historians in the main came rather late to the history of labour, at least in comparison with their British counterparts; early interpretations of the history of German labour owed a great deal to the work of sociologists rather than historians