Occupation of Parents of Registered Prostitutes in Berlin (1873) This table shows that whereas one in five Berlin prostitutes under police supervision in 1872-73 had at least one parent who was a factory worker, almost one in two had a parent who was a craft worker.
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page 1 of 1 Occupation of Parents of Registered Prostitutes in Berlin (1873) If we disregard the 102 cases in which the parents’ occupation is not specified, then we are left with the following occupational categories, ordered according to frequency of occurrence: Occupation of parents In percent Craft work 1015 47.9 Factory work 467 22.0 Minor civil service including private officials 305 14.4 Transportation and trade 222 10.4 Agriculture and gardening 87 4.1 Military 26 1.2 2122 100.0 Source: Hermann Schwabe, “Einblicke in das innere und äußere Leben der Berliner Prostituirten” [“Insights into the Personal and Public Lives of Prostitutes in Berlin”], Berliner Städtisches Jahrbuch für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik [Berlin City Almanac for Political Economy and Statistics] 1 (1874): pp. 60-74, here pp. 62-66. Original German data reprinted in Gerhard A. Ritter and Jürgen Kocka, eds., Deutsche Sozialgeschichte 1870-1914. Dokumente und Skizzen [German Social History 1870-1914. Documents and Sketches], 3rd ed. Munich: Beck, 1982, p. 253. Translation: Erwin Fink
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