Workers, Unions, and Social Democracy History 323 / Feb. 18, 2013
Ferdinand Lassalle ( ) General German Workers’ Federation (ADAV), 1863
August Bebel ( ) SAPD (1875) becomes SPD (1890)
Max Hödel fires on Wilhelm I (May 11, 1878)
Cartoon from Punch (1878)
Bismarck steers toward a new coalition
Police breaking up socialist meetings
Reichstag elections of the 1880s (% of votes cast) 10/27/8110/28/842/21/872/20/90 Conservatives Free conservs National liberals Progressives/ Freethinkers Center Social Dems Others
The Social Democratic delegation to the Reichstag (1889)
Friedrich III
Wilhelm II (seen here with England’s Queen Victoria)
“Dropping the pilot” (Punch, March 1890)
Adolph von Menzel, The Iron Rolling Mill (1875)
Shift change in the Saarland (ca. 1899)
Visit to Krupp, ca. 1910
Production at AEG, Berlin, ca. 1900
Robert Koehler, The Strike (1886)
Union membership in Germany, (dark blue = socialist unions; pink = Catholic unions; yellow = liberal unions; light blue = total)
Industrial wage earners million (23.7% of all employed) million (29.6% of all employed) million (33.5% of all employed) Average work week 1860s78 hours hours 1885/9066 hours 1910/ hours
The architecture of “rental barracks”
Workers’ quarters, ca. 1910