The challenge of modernity : German social and cultural studies, 1890-1960 / Adelheid von Saldern ; translated by Bruce Little ; with a foreword by Geoff Eley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Geoff Eley -- Introduction: the challenge of modernity -- Dynamics of the working-class movement in society -- Party centers and party hinterlands: the trend to centralization and hierarchism in the Wilhelminian SPD -- Workers' parties, class identity, and united action: experiences, social constructs, and myths in the Weimar republic -- Social rationalization and gender -- "Instead of cathedrals, dwelling machines": the paradoxes of rationalization under the banner of modernity -- "How should linoleum floors be cleaned?": a contribution to Alltagsgeschichte and the social history of the 1920s -- Social rationalization of domestic life and housework in Germany and the United States in the 1920s -- Poor and homeless of Hanover in the Weimar republic: the world of Getrude Polley -- "A sensation comes to naught": Gertrude Polley at the center of a discourse / Adelheid Von Saldern, Karen Heinze, Sybille Kuster -- Popular culture and politics -- Sports and public culture: the opening ceremonies of the Hanover stadium in 1922 -- Popular culture: an immense challenge in the Weimar republic -- "Art for the people": from cultural conservatism to Nazi cultural policies -- Entertainment, gender image, and cultivating an audience: radio in the GDR in the 1950s.