"In Labor Alone is Happiness": Women's Work, Social Work, and Feminist Reform Endeavors in Wilhelmine Germany--A Transatlantic Perspective

@article{Schroder2004InLA,
  title={"In Labor Alone is Happiness": Women's Work, Social Work, and Feminist Reform Endeavors in Wilhelmine Germany--A Transatlantic Perspective},
  author={Iris Anja Schroder and Iris Anja Schuler},
  journal={Journal of Women's History},
  year={2004},
  volume={16},
  pages={127 - 147}
}

Iris Anja Schroder, Iris Anja Schuler
Published 2004
Sociology
Journal of Women's History

When social reformers in Wilhelmine Germany discussed "the social question" or "the woman's question," they often did so in a gendered way, pointing at the plight of overburdened female factory workers and the presumingly parasitical lives of middle- and upper-class women. In fact, work as opposed to leisure precluded happiness for one group of women in Wilhelmine Germany; lack of work made life difficult for another group. This article argues that women social reformers searched for ways to… Expand

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