Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany

1892 book by Maximilian Weber

Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany Author| Maximilian Weber

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Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany (in German: Die Verhältnisse der Landarbeiter im ostelbischen Deutschland) is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist, in 1892. Note that the original edition was in German and the title can be translated as "Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany".

In 1890 an association (known as Verein für Socialpolitik) of scholars, government officials and other specialists decided to study the situation of landowners in Germany. Weber assumed responsibility for reviewing data from German provinces east of the Elbe River.

The situation in that part of Germany was influenced by the influx of migratory workers from Eastern Europe, with special regards to Poles and Russians, while the German labourers wanted to increase their upward social mobility, especially by changing the traditional labour relations of that region (workers could only become labourers on annual contract).

However, their demands and expectations were actually putting them in a weaker position regarding the economic struggle for survival, as they were less competitive than migratory workers.

Weber analyzed those changing labour relations as a symptom of widespread changes in the entire German society.

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Max Weber

* Bibliography
* List of speeches
* Liberalism
* German politics

Books|

* Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter (1889)
* Roman Agrarian History and Its Significance for Public and Private Law (1891)
* Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany (1892)
* The Stock Exchange (1896)
* The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
* The Economic Ethics of the World Religions
* The Religion of China (1915)
* The Religion of India (1916)
* Ancient Judaism (1921)
* Sociology of Religion (1920)
* The City (1921)
* Economy and Society (1922)

Essays|

* "The 'Objectivity' of Knowledge in Social Science and Social Policy" (1904)
* "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904)
* "The Rejection and the Meaning of the World" (1916)

Lectures|

* "Science as a Vocation" (1917)
* "Politics as a Vocation" (1919)
* General Economic History (1923)

Concepts|

* Disenchantment
* Ideal type
* Inner-worldly asceticism
* Iron cage
* Life chances
* Methodological individualism
* Monopoly on violence
* Protestant work ethic
* Rationalisation
* Social action
* Affectional
* Traditional
* Instrumental
* Value-rational
* Three-component theory of stratification
* Tripartite classification of authority
* Charismatic
* Rational-legal
* Traditional
* Value-freedom
* Verstehen

People|

* Max Weber Sr. (father)
* Alfred Weber (brother)
* Marianne Weber (wife)

Related|

* Verein für Socialpolitik
* Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik
* German Sociological Association
* German Democratic Party
* Max Weber Foundation

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