商品簡介
Countering the trend to segregate economic/business and social history, Kocka (history of the industrial world, Free U. Berlin) presents an integrative history of German industrial society in 13 essays. Featured is his seminal study of the Siemens electrical engineering firm, on the impact of bureaucratic structures and entrepreneurship on family relations. The concluding chapter spans 1800-1990 in presenting "the difficult rise" of modern German civil society. Data tables and figures profile Germany's labor force. Translators are noted for six of the chapters. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jurgen Kocka holds a Chair for the History of the Industrial World at the Free University Berlin.
