Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany: Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia

by Lynn Abrams

Book Overview

Workers Culture in Imperial Germany represents the first alternative approach to the study of workers' culture in Imperial Germany. It is also the first comprehensive historical analysis of the emergence of Germany's modern leisure industry. The central concern of the book is the emergence of a distinct workers' culture which provided a disparate and heterogeneous working class with a focus of identity in an alien and hostile society. Lynn Abrams...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415076358
• ISBN13: 9780415076357
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"