German Trade Unions, Their History, and the Use of Memory Available to Purchase

STEFAN BERGER is professor of social history and director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany. He is also executive chair of the History of the Ruhr Foundation, president of the German Labor History Association, and an honorary professor at Cardiff University in the UK. He was chair of the DGB Commission on Memory Cultures of Social Democracy from 2017 to 2020. He has published widely in comparative labor history. Among his recent publications are Making Sense of Mining History: Themes and Agendas (coedited with Peter Alexander, 2020); Marxist Historical Cultures and Social Movements during the Cold War (coedited with Christoph Cornelißen, 2019); “Industrial Heritage and the Ambiguities of Nostalgia for an Industrial Past in the Ruhr Valley in Germany” (2019); and “The Revival of German Labour History” (2019).