Growing Up Working Class: Continuity and Change Among Viennese Youth, 1890-1938

by J. Robert Wegs and Robert Wegs

This study of working-class culture, youth behavior, and the response of youths to conditions in a European setting acknowledges that poverty existed among much of the working class but questions the implicit arguments that these conditions necessarily brought about destructive responses. Until recently, various simplistic paradigms have dominated studies of European workers. These have stressed the misery of urban laborers in a capitalistic society,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271028076
• ISBN13: 9780271028071
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"