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Practical Courses Offered by the Vocational Schools of the Lette Association (1871-1872; 1879)
In nineteenth-century Germany, women were not yet admitted to university studies. However, their education became more important and attracted more public discussion as the century wore on. Whereas....
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Lectures Offered by the Women’s Education Association in Leipzig (1865-1884)
Founded in Leipzig in 1865, the Women’s Education Association was like other groups of its kind in that it offered a combination of entertainment and Sunday school instruction. The lessons aimed....
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The Employment of Women: Conservative and Liberal Views (1872)
As traditional gender roles changed, women’s suitability for particular kinds of employment became a significant issue. In this excerpt from a debate on the floor of the Reichstag, Postmaster General....
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August Bebel, Women under Socialism (1879)
August Bebel (1840-1913), the son of a low-ranking Prussian officer and a wood-turner by trade, became the most iconic Social Democrat in Imperial Germany. In 1866, together with Wilhelm Liebknecht,....
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The Impact of Bebel’s Women under Socialism (c. 1890)
Although August Bebel’s Women under Socialism [Die Frau und der Sozialismus]....
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Household of a Large Working-Class Family in a Village near Frankfurt am Main (1877)
This report from Taunus, a hilly area near Frankfurt, makes clear that families of workers – especially unskilled ones – often lived on the edge of desperation. As in this case, their situation was....
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Large Dresden Family Living on 1,000 Marks per Annum (c. 1880s)
Illness and unforeseen circumstances could always jeopardize the welfare of working-class families in Imperial Germany. But as this excerpt from the autobiography of a working-class woman in Dresden....
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A Working-Class File-Cutter Remembers his Fatherless Childhood (1879-1909)
Without a comprehensive social welfare system yet in place, the injury or death of the family’s main breadwinner could easily bring low-income workers’ families to the brink of ruin. This excerpt....
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Carl Büchsel, Memories of a Rural Death (1860s)
In contrast to the relative anonymity of urban life, rural areas continued to afford a higher degree of social cohesion and participation in community life. In this passage from his memoirs, the....
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Working-Class Boarding Houses in Chemnitz and Berlin (1890)
Germany’s explosive population growth and urbanization made housing a social problem of immense proportions. In the 1860s tenements....
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