The proletariat never existed—but it had a profound effect on late nineteenth and early twentieth century German culture. Covering a wide range of class-based art forms, literary genres, practices, and discourses, this interdisciplinary study presents these forgotten archives as part of an elusive collective imaginary that modeled what it meant—and even more important, how it felt—to claim the name "proletarian" with pride, hope, and conviction.
Sabine Hake
Working-class culture social movements, history of emotion socialism