CHAPTER 4. Have We Come Any Closer to Alltag? Everyday Reality and Workers' Lives as an Object of Historical Research in the German Democratic Republic

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. CHAPTER 1. Introduction: What Is the History of Everyday Life and Who Are Its Practitioners ? 1
5. CHAPTER 2. "Missionaries in the Rowboat" ? Ethnological Ways of Knowing as a Challenge to Social History 41
6. CHAPTER 3. Mentalities, Ideologies, Discourses: On the "Third Level" as a Theme in Social-Historical Research 72
7. CHAPTER 4. Have We Come Any Closer to Alltag? Everyday Reality and Workers' Lives as an Object of Historical Research in the German Democratic Republic 116
8. CHAPTER 5. The History of Everyday Life and Gender Relations: On Historical and Historiographical Relationships 149
9. CHAPTER 6. Popular Culture and Workers' Culture as Symbolic Orders: Comments on the Debate about the History of Culture and Everyday Life 169
10. CHAPTER 7. What Happened to the " Fiery Red Glow" ? Workers' Experiences and German Fascism 198
11. CHAPTER 8. Zeroing in on Change: In Search of Popular Experience in the Industrial Province in the German Democratic Republic 252
12. GLOSSARY OF SELECTED TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS 313
13. CONTRIBUTORS 317