Wilhelm L. Guttsman Bücher

A study of the popular culture institutions created by the German Labor Movement after 1890, focusing on the role of visual art in the working class environment, both as an influence in the home and in the political agitation and propaganda of the political parties. Political art of this period reflected both a utopian belief in the success of the struggle and the harsh images of a revolutionary ideology, and represented a range of political beliefs, from Social Democracy to the Communist movement. Includes many high-quality bandw illustrations. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

In this book W. L. Guttsman, a prominent German social and political historian, examines the labour movement's remarkable development of leisure and educational opportunities for the working class and analyses the cultural theories and policies of the socialist and communist parties which initiated and supported it in Weimar Germany.