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- Title
Moral Economies of Love and Labor in the GDR: Family Values and Work Ethics in Advice Correspondence, circa 1960.
- Authors
Großmann, Till
- Abstract
The article discusses the emergence of an East German middle-class habitus through public debates on marriage, gender roles, and work along with campaigns on the formation of the “socialist man." Hence, the realms of “family" and “economy" became closely linked sites of intensified moral disputes from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. Focusing on readers' letters to the physician and author Rudolf Neubert, the article analyses ensembles of debates and practices as moral economies: they shaped values, emotions, and knowledge at workplaces and within families that both helped to establish and subvert values that were perceived as socialist.
- Subjects
ECONOMICS &; ethics; HABITUS (Sociology); MIDDLE class; SOCIAL values; EVERYDAY life; FAMILIES; SOCIALISM
- Publication
Geschichte und Gesellschaft Sonderheft, 2019, Issue 26, p214
- ISSN
0944-2014
- Publication type
Article