The wave of upbeat stories on the developing world's emerging middle class has reinvigorated a debate on how social class in general and the middle class in particular ought to be defined and empirically measured. With the aim of adding clarity to this debate, this dissertation provides a...

"Der vorliegende Band, herausgegeben von Frank-Lothar Kroll, vereinigt Abhandlungen des Chemnitzer Historikers Rudolf Boch zur deutschen Industrialisierung: Aufsätze zu den handwerklichen Ursprüngen der Arbeiterbewegung, aber auch ein Resümee zur Transformation dieser Bewegung nach 1890. Die...

Though written at different times, and in response to different occasions, the essays in this book aim to offer a convincing and coherent approach to the interpretation of the topic referred to in the title. The initial impetus for this long course of historical research came in 1976, with a...