Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. German Historical Perspectives Editorial Preface vii
4. 1 Work as a Problem in European History 1
5. 2 Discourses on Work and Labour in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany 17
6. 3 Beginnings of the Anthropology of Work: Nineteenth-Century Social Scientists and Their Influence on Ethnography 37
7. 4 The Vision(s) of Work in the Nineteenth-Century German Labour Movement 55
8. 5 Work in Gender, Gender in Work: The German Case in Comparative Perspective 73
9. 6 Trust as Work 93
10. 7 Soldiering and Working: Almost the Same? Reviewing Practices in Industry and the Military in Twentieth-Century Contexts 109
11. 8 Forced Labour in the Second World War: The German Case and Responsibility 131
12. 9 Work, Max Weber, Confucianism: The Confucian Ethic and the Spirit of Japanese Capitalism 153
13. 10 What is Global Labour History Good For? 169
14. Bibliography 183
15. Notes on Contributors 215
16. Index 219