Jürgen Kocka is one of the foremost historians of Germany whose work has been devoted to the integration of different genres of the social and economic history of Europe during the period of industrialization. This collection of essays gives a representative sample of his effort to develop, by reference to Marx and Weber, new and powerful analytical tools for understanding the dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Jürgen Kocka holds the chair for the History of the Industrial World at the Free University Berlin and is a permanent Fellow of the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. He is a member of the Academia Europaea Cambridge and of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. In 1992 he received the Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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Chapter 1. From Manufacture to the Factory: Technology amd Workplace Relations at Siemens,1847-1873
Chapter 2. Family and Bureaucracy in German Industrial Management, 1850-1914: Siemens in Comparative Perspective
Chapter 3. Siemens and the Preventable Rise of AEG
Chapter 4. Entrepreneurship in a Late-Comer Country: the German Case
Chapter 5. The Entrepreneur, the Family, and Capitalism
Chapter 6. German Industrial Entrepreneurs at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Centuries
Chapter 7. Big Business and the Rise of Managerial Capitalism in the late 19th and the early 20th Centuries
Chapter 8. New Energies in the 19th Century: Toward a Social History of the Electricity Business
Chapter 9. Authoritarian State and Bürgerlichkeit. Toward a History of the German Bürgertum in the 19th Century
Chapter 10. The Middle Classes in Europe
Chapter 11. The Difficult Rise of a Civil Society: Societal History of Modern Germany

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