Publisher's Synopsis
Conflicts characterize the system of dependent labor under capitalism and regularly become visible in the form of tangible issues subject to dispute. Courts and other institutions of labor conflict resolution attempt to mediate and control them, performing work on the conflict in a process of negotiation between workers, employers and the institutions mediating agents. This study takes a close look at both institutional and extra-institutional labor conflict resolution in the German Empire between 1890 and 1918. On the basis of court records and other sources, for example from industrial tribunals and legal information offices in Worms and Bad Aibling, it shows how conflict resolution in these institutions and their actors functioned and what significance was attached to labor disputes and their handling in the empire.
