Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface ix
4. Abbreviations for Kafka Citations xix
5. Kafka and the Ministry of Writing 1
6. Kafka’s Office Writings: Historical Background and Institutional Setting 19
7. DOCUMENTS
8. 1. Speech on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the Institute’s New Director (1909) 51
9. 2. The Scope of Compulsory Insurance for the Building Trades (1908) 54
10. 3. Fixed- Rate Insurance Premiums for Small Farms Using Machinery (1909) 74
11. 4. Inclusion of Private Automobile “Firms” in the Compulsory Insurance Program (1909) 80
12. 5. Appeal against Risk Classification of Christian Geipel & Sohn, Mechanical Weaving Mill in Asch (1910) 90
13. 6. Measures for Preventing Accidents from Wood- Planing Machines (1910) 109
14. 7. On the Examination of Firms by Trade Inspectors (1911) 120
15. 8. Workmen’s Insurance and Employers: Two Articles in the Tetschen-Bodenbacher Zeitung (1911) 145
16. 9. Petition of the Toy Producers’ Association in Katharinaberg, Erzgebirge (1912) 170
17. 10. Risk Classification Appeal by Norbert Hochsieder, Boarding House Own er in Marienbad (1912) 194
18. 11. Letters to the Workmen’s Accident Insurance Institute in Prague (1912–15) 213
19. 12. Criminal Charge against Josef Renelt for the Illegal Withholding of Insurance Fees (1913) 225
20. 13. Second International Congress on Accident Prevention and First Aid in Vienna (1913) 249
21. 14. Accident Prevention in Quarries (1914) 273
22. 15. Jubilee Report: Twenty- Five Years of the Workmen’s Accident Insurance Institute (1914) 301
23. 16. Risk Classification and Accident Prevention in War time (1915) 322
24. 17. A Public Psychiatric Hospital for German- Bohemia (1916) 336
25. 18. “Help Disabled Veterans! An Urgent Appeal to the Public” (1916/1917) 346
26. Wraparound: From Kafka to Kafkaesque 355
27. Chronology 373
28. Notes 379
29. About the Editors 393
30. Index 395