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The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany

The Salaried Masses: Duty and Distraction in Weimar Germany

Kracauer, Siegfried
Hoare, Quintin

Paperback

General World HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 1859841872
ISBN13: 9781859841877
Publisher: Verso
Published: Sep 17 1998
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.49 Depth: 8.57
Language: English
First published in 1930, Siegfried Kracauer's work was greeted with great acclaim and soon attained the status of a classic. The object of his inquiry was the new class of salaried employees who populated the cities of Weimar Germany.

Spiritually homeless, divorced from all custom and tradition, these white-collar workers sought refuge in entertainment--or the distraction industries, as Kracauer put it--but, only three years later, were to flee into the arms of Adolf Hitler. Eschewing the instruments of traditional sociological scholarship, but without collapsing into mere journalistic reportage, Kracauer explores the contradictions of this caste. Drawing on conversations, newspapers, adverts and personal correspondence, he charts the bland horror of the everyday. In the process he succeeds in writing not just a prescient account of the declining days of the Weimar Republic, but also a path-breaking exercise in the sociology of culture which has sharp relevance for today.

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