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Chapter 17
Men, Women and Labor: West Germany
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Occupation and the Emergence of Two States (1945-1961)
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Enterprising Women: Cooking under the Open Sky (1945)
Putting Every Brick to Use: “Rubble Woman” Removing Mortar Remnants (1946)
On the Occupational Situation of Women after 1945 (1949)
The Art of Maintaining a Household: All Purchases are Carefully Recorded (1950)
A Skeptical Glance at a Female Plumber’s Apprentice (1952)
“Mrs.” instead of “Miss” – Bundestag Debate on Female Forms of Address (December 17, 1954)
A Secretary Takes Dictation on a Typewriter (1954)
The Role of Women from a Protestant and Catholic Perspective in the 1950s (1954/1958)
Renate Mayntz on What Motivates Women to Pursue a Career (1955)
“Worker Treaty Rome – Bonn Signed,” Frankfurter Rundschau (December 21, 1955)
“Italian Workers to Germany,” Der Tagesspiegel (December 21, 1955)
Advertisement for Lux Dishwashing Liquid from Stern Magazine (1959)
“Guest Workers” in their Living Quarters in Frankfurt am Main (1959)
Federal Minister Franz-Josef Wuermeling on the Indispensability of Mothers (Excerpt from a Speech on Mother’s Day, 1959)
Press Statement by Maria Weber, Main Department “Women in the DGB,” on the Working Woman and the Social Situation of the Family (August 30, 1960)
The Living Conditions of Labor Migrants in North Rhine Westphalia (October 21, 1960)
Greek Female Laborers in a Canning Factory in Southwest Germany (November 21, 1960)
“The Foreign Workers and Us,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (June 3, 1961)
Structural Change in the Workforce (1950–1970)
Men, Women and Labor: East Germany
Family, Sexuality and Nation: East Germany