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11.	Alfred Krupp, Address to his Employees (February 11, 1877) One of imperial Germany’s leading industrialists, the steel magnate Alfred Krupp (1812-1887) was....
12.	Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg, Address to his Employees (c. 1889) Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg (1836-1901), a steel magnate and Free Conservative member....
13.	Interior of a Leipzig Law Professor's Home (1870s-1880s) This description of a Leipzig law professor's home was written from the critical perspective of his own son. It illustrates how, in the decade following unification, the rising class of professionals....
14.	Financing the Upbringing and Education of a Bourgeois Family (1860-1890) This excerpt from a 1921 scholarly study documenting the family budget of a higher civil servant from 1860 to 1890 shows the costs involved in raising and educating children in a manner befitting....
15.	Butchers, Cattle-Traders, and Jews in Mainz Due to legal restrictions and prejudice, trade had been a traditional source of income for Jews in Germany for centuries, and this was true even after Jewish....
16.	A Tailor in a Small Pomeranian Town (1870s) Franz Rehbein (1867-1909) was a farm laborer whose principal legacy was his autobiography—one of the rare personal testimonies of the agrarian working class of the late nineteenth century. Rehbein’s....
17.	Artisanal Masters Oppose the Rise of Factory Work in Krefeld (1870s) In contrast to countries like Great Britain, which experienced industrialization early on, Germany first saw a massive shift from small artisanal workshops to large factories in the second half of....
18.	Retail Clerks in Changing Economic Times (c. 1890) This excerpt is taken from a report by Karl Oldenberg, a well-known economics professor who served on the editorial board of the journal Schmollers Jahrbuch, which published the full report....
19.	Categories of Rural Workers in the Late Nineteenth Century Even in the late nineteenth century, the majority of Germans lived in towns of fewer than 2,000 inhabitants; agriculture continued to be a major employer, especially in the east. This passage, drawn....
20.	Flax Cultivation on the Lüneburg Heath (1870s) In the 1870s, mechanization was still underdeveloped in most parts of rural Germany, and farming was closely linked to seasonal cycles: summer entailed long, outdoor workdays, while indoor tasks....
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