War and the Working Class
The Case of Düsseldorf 1914–1918
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9645328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth H Tobin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 257-298 |
| Publication date | 1985-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938900017349 |
| OpenAlex | W2155939082 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
The causes of any revolution are notoriously hard to discover. Despite years of effort, historians still disagree about the relative importance of the short-term and long-term causes of the German revolution in 1918–19. Some describe the “events” at the end of the war as a largely unrevolutionary desire for peace and food, brought about by the privations of the war years; others explain them as the culmination of decades of escalating class conflicts, which the conditions of war sharply exposed. One problem with this whole debate has been an insufficient knowledge of exactly what happened to Germany's workers during the war. Although most historians agree that money wages went up, real wages declined and most people ate less, few have been able to gauge the extent or importance of the change in wages or determine whether workers were simply somewhat hungry, malnourished, or starving. Furthermore there is not enough known about the composition of the work force during the war and the different hardships endured by skilled and unskilled workers
Class conflict · Culmination · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · German · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Work (physics · Working class · World War II · Engineering · European history and politics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 1992 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |