Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany
Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany (in German: Die Verhältnisse der Landarbeiter im ostelbischen Deutschland) is a book written by Maximilian Weber, a German economist and sociologist, in 1892. Note that the original edition was in German and the title can be translated as "Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany".
In 1890 an association (known as Verein für Socialpolitik) of scholars, government officials and other specialists decided to study the situation of landowners in Germany. Weber assumed responsibility for reviewing data from German provinces east of the Elbe River.
The situation in that part of Germany was influenced by the influx of migratory workers from Eastern Europe, with special regards to Poles and Russians, while the German labourers wanted to increase their upward social mobility, especially by changing the traditional labour relations of that region (workers could only become labourers on annual contract).
However, their demands and expectations were actually putting them in a weaker position regarding the economic struggle for survival, as they were less competitive than migratory workers.
Weber analyzed those changing labour relations as a symptom of widespread changes in the entire German society.
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- Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter (1889)
- Roman Agrarian History and Its Significance for Public and Private Law (1891)
- Condition of Farm Labour in Eastern Germany (1892)
- The Stock Exchange (1896)
- The Objectivity of the Sociological and Social-Political Knowledge (1904)
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
- The Religion of China (1915)
- The Religion of India (1916)
- The Rejection and the Meaning of the World (1916)
- Sociology of Religion (1920)
- Ancient Judaism (1921)
- The City (1921)
- Economy and Society (1922)
- Basic Concepts in Sociology (1922)
- Sociology of Community
- Sociology of Rulership and Religion
- Sociology of the World Religions
- "Science as a Vocation" (1917)
- "Politics as a Vocation" (1919)
- Wirtschaftsgeschichte (1923)
- Max Weber Sr. (father)
- Alfred Weber (brother)
- Marianne Weber (wife)