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A Workplace Accident: A Hamburg Shoemaker’s Plea for Assistance and a Senator’s Response (1883-84)
Before Bismarck’s health, accident, disability, and pension insurance were introduced in the 1880s, any sudden calamity or career interruption brought with it the possibility of immediate hardship....
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Report of a Poor-Relief Doctor in Berlin (c. 1890)
This excerpt from a doctor’s report on health conditions in a squalid Berlin neighborhood shows the downside of industrialization and urbanization. It also reveals just how urgent the need for social....
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"It's Amazingly Rare that I get an Egg!" Breakfast for a Leipzig Working-Class Family (mid-1880s)
Working-class families spent a larger portion of their income on food than families from the....
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The Unhealthy Nourishment of Urban Workers as Depicted by a Bourgeois Social Reformer (1890)
Malnutrition was recognized as the underlying cause of many problems among urban workers, including high infant mortality and poor work performance. In this commentary from 1890, a bourgeois social....
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Social Democrats Discuss the State’s Social Insurance Policy (1890)
Paul Göhre (1864-1928) was a Protestant pastor and social reformer who spent three months undercover as a factory worker in the industrial city of Chemnitz in order to study the experiences and attitudes....
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Karl Marx, Capital, volume 1, The Process of Capitalistic Production (1867)
Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a philosopher, a propagandist, and a revolutionary – in that order. He may stand as nineteenth-century Germany’s most important and influential thinker. In 1867, Marx published....
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Why the Government Cannot Ignore the Social Question: A Conservative View (January 29, 1872)
By the 1870s, the problem of “pauperism” – already much debated before 1848 – had been redefined as the “social question.” It received attention from political parties across the entire political....
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Gustav Schmoller on the Social Question and the Prussian State (1874)
“The Social Question and the Prussian State” (1874) was published in a prestigious contemporary journal by the economics professor and co-founder of the Association for Social Policy Gustav Schmoller....
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Heinrich von Treitschke, "Socialism and its Patrons" (1874)
A leading kleindeutsch historian and university teacher, Heinrich von Treitschke (1834-1896)....
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Franz Perrot’s "Era Articles" Attacking Bismarck’s Ministry, Liberals, and the Jews (June 29 - July 1, 1875)
Franz Perrot (1833-1891) was an antisemitic conservative writer who published a series of blockbuster essays in his party’s leading newspaper, the Neue Preussische (Kreuz-) Zeitung. They were....
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