Proletarians And Politics

Proletarians and Politics addresses the historian and student of history who wish to find out more about the history of Germany's working class, about the rise and fall of the socialist labor movement in Germany, and about new approaches to German labor history.

This book--as a history of the German labor movement--offers a critique of the traditional emphasis on organization and ideology both through a survey of the literature and a presentation of new evidence, including a study of working-class opinion on a wide range of political and social issues, based on reports compiled by police spies in the pubs and bars of Hamburg between 1892 and 1914.