| Popis: |
Since the 1880s various investigations into the everyday life of German white-collar workers have been conducted by social scientists, journalists and politicians. In 1929/30 Siegfried Kracauer published his famous study “The White-Collar Workers. News from Present-Day Germany”. Since then several academic disciplines have started to focus on the economic, organisational, medical, social and psychic aspects of everyday living and working conditions of white-collar workers. The corresponding cultural aspects, however, have so far met with almost total neglect. Including the recapitulated version of a case history on white-collar voluntary associations, the article suggests that more attention be paid to those social groups that constitute the majority of today's working population, not only in Germany, but in most Western countries. |
