TY - BOOK ID - 30922844 TI - Working class politics in the German Revolution AU - Hoffrogge, Ralf AU - Keady, Joseph B AU - Desai, Radhika PY - 2015 SN - 9004280065 9789004280069 9004219218 132219985X 9789004219212 PB - Leiden, Netherlands DB - UniCat KW - Labor unions KW - Revolutionaries KW - Shop stewards KW - Labor movement KW - Working class KW - Officials and employees KW - History KW - Political activity KW - Müller, Richard, KW - Germany KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Commons (Social order) KW - Labor and laboring classes KW - Laboring class KW - Labouring class KW - Working classes KW - Stewards, Shop KW - Industrial unions KW - Labor, Organized KW - Labor organizations KW - Organized labor KW - Trade-unions KW - Unions, Labor KW - Unions, Trade KW - Working-men's associations KW - Employment KW - Müller, Richard Louis, KW - Weimar Republic, Germany, 1918-1933 KW - Social classes KW - Labor KW - Societies KW - Central labor councils KW - Guilds KW - Syndicalism KW - Revolution (Germany : 1918) KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30922844 AB - Richard Müller, a leading figure of the German Revolution in 1918, is unknown today. As the operator and unionist who represented Berlin’s metalworkers, he was main organiser of the ‘Revolutionary Stewards’, a clandestine network that organised a series of mass strikes between 1916 and 1918. With strong support in the factories, the Revolutionary Stewards were the driving force of the Revolution. By telling Müller's story, this study gives a very different account of the revolutionary birth of the Weimar Republic. Using new archival sources and abandoning the traditional focus on the history of political parties, Ralf Hoffrogge zooms in on working class politics on the shop floor and its contribution to social change. First published in German by Karl Dietz Verlag as Richard Müller - Der Mann hinter der November Revolution , Berlin, 2008, this english edition was completerly revised for the english speaking audience and contains new sources and recent literature. ER -