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Agricultural Labor Shortage
Author_Elizabeth B. Jones
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Deputy Commanding General
Der Landwirtschaft
Der Landwirtschaftskammer
Droste Verlag
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Family Farms
farm
Farm Daughters
Farm Wives
Farm Women
Farm Women's Work
Farm Women’s Work
farms
female agricultural workers
gendered labour migration
German Family Farms
Hundert Jahre
Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten
medium
Medium Sized Family Farms
Root Crop Cultivation
Rural Flight
Rural Housewives
Rural League
Rural Modernity
rural social reform
rural women's labour
Saxon Farms
Saxony agricultural history
sized
social
Social Welfare Reformers
Von Brand
Von Rundstedt
Weimar Republic social policy
wives
women
Women's Agricultural Labor
women's role in German rural modernity
Women’s Agricultural Labor
Young Rural Women
Product details
- ISBN 9780754664994
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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By the end of the First World War, women's labor was viewed by contemporary observers as fundamental to the survival of family farms in Germany and consequently to the nation's economic and social stability. At the same time, however, the overburdening of farm women sparked increasingly acrimonious conflicts between young hired women, or Mägde, their employers, and state officials. The progressive feminization of agricultural work in Germany during the prewar decades and attempts after the war to prevent young women's flight from family farms is the focus of this new study. Concentrating principally on developments in the Kingdom, later the Freestate, of Saxony, the author highlights the ways that previously invisible historical actors -young rural women- actively shaped state policies: in disputes over work between Mägde and their employers before village magistrates; in the thorny debates over rural social welfare reform and the campaigns to professionalize farm wives and daughters; and in state officials' uneven enforcement of agricultural employment laws and their struggles to maintain the food supply during and after the First World War. The book furthermore challenges established narratives of German history that equate modernity with the industrial and the urban, instead suggesting that rural inhabitants participated actively in the broader debates and crises that defined modernity in the Imperial and Weimar eras, particularly concerning debates over individual rights versus collective national duties, the future health and prosperity of the Volk, and the meanings of Germanness.
Dr Elizabeth B. Jones, Department of History, Colorado State University, USA
