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Chapter 16

Men, Women and Labor: East Germany

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  1. Taking a Break during Clearing Operations in Berlin (1945-46)

  2. Order Regarding Measures to Increase Labor Productivity and to Further Improve the Material Situation of the Workers and Salaried Employees in Industry and the Transportation Sector (1947)

  3. Recommendations for Promoting Women’s Work in East German Enterprises (1949)

  4. Letters to the Editor of the Magazine Die Frau von heute: “Is the Working Woman a Bad Mother?” (1950)

  5. Female Workers at the East German State Railway Improvement Works in Wittenberge (1955)

  6. Members of the Worin Agricultural Cooperative in Oderbruch Discuss their Work (1955)

  7. Housework with Husband and Children (1955)

  8. Members of a “Socialist Work Collective” Eat Lunch in the Barracks of a Potsdam Construction Site (1959)

  9. Housewives’ Brigade (January 1960)

  10. Anita Grandke, “Does the Working Woman Destroy Her Family?” (June 11, 1960)

  11. Comment by a Female Teacher after a Lecture by Kurt Hager on the Situation in Schools (October 1960)

  12. Assessment of the 12th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany on Getting Women to Take up Gainful Employment (1961)

  13. Report by the Central Women’s Committee (Bergmann-Borsig) on the Tenth Anniversary of the Women’s Committees (1962)

  14. Gainfully Employed Persons and Labor Force Participation Rate (1949–1970)

 
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