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- Title
Latente Determinanten der Sozialstruktur der sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterbewegung im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert: Zum Zusammenhang von Arbeit und Organisationsverhalten.
- Authors
Schröder, Wilhelm Heinz
- Abstract
The research project "The History of Workers and Labor Movement. Industrial Work and Organizational Behavior in the 19th and early 20th Century" (1978) provides the following key questions: 1) "Under what kind of general conditions did the German workers' movement arise and develop during the time of the mid-19th century until the First World War?" 2) "Under what conditions could did industrial workers organize?" 3) "Why are there different organizational levels in the respective recruitment fields of the different professional and industry groups (unions)?" and 4) "Can one find determinants of the organization capability of industrial workers within their working history?" With the help of the categories of Dahrendorf conflict theory, the author has developed an analytical model for the development of trade unions, and applies the resources of modern commercial and industrial sociology to history. The point is not about what the author calls the "manifest" interests of workers - those motives which lead to the conscious situation-dependent behavior of the actor are categorized under the labor movement's history. Rather it is about latent, meaning unconscious, interests that work together with the general determinants to identify the organizational behavior of the workers. The author analyzes these determinants under the following rubric: 1) The requirements of industrial work, namely the level of education and training of the workers, their mobility, and their different connections to their work and their workplace, 2) the forms of industrial work, namely the repercussions of changing technology and work organizations in the fields of handicrafts, cottage industries, and in the factories and manufacturing plants, and 3) the conditions of industrial work, which is about the effects of wage levels, working hours, and age in the interest and organization of the workers. This exploratory study also provides particularly important interpretive bases for the collective biography analyses of the author about the Social Democratic Reichstag candidates, and about the delegates of the Empire and the Parliament during the German Empire and the Weimar Republic.
- Subjects
GERMANY; GERMAN history; LABOR movement; LABOR unions &; socialism; LABOR union elections; LABOR union personnel; LABOR organizing; HISTORY; HISTORY of labor unions; TWENTIETH century; NINETEENTH century; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Historical Social Research - Supplement, 2011, p155
- ISSN
0936-6784
- Publication type
Article