Urban Working Class

Question 1

What did Bismarck introduce which provided 13 weeks pay to 3 million workers?

(Kaiser Reich - Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 1

Sickness Insurance (1883)

Question 2

What % was unemployment in one year between 1900-14?

Kaiser Reich - Growth of the Urban working class

Answer 2

3%

Question 3

Sunday work was prohibited for children under what age and women didn’t have to work more than 11 hours a week?

(Kaiser Reich - Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 3

13

1891

Question 4

Accident insurance was extended when?

 (Kaiser Reich - Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 4

1900

Question 5

The new Weimar constitution guaranteed employees equal rights with employers: how long was the new working day?

(Weimar - Growth of the urban working class)

Answer 5

8hr working day

Question 6

From 1870-1910 what happened to the population of urban cities?

(Weimar - Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 6

Quadrupled

Question 7

real wages increased by what % in 1927 and what % in 1928?

Weimar- Growth of the Urban working class

Answer 7

9% to 12%

Question 8

How many new houses were built to alleviate overcrowding by the SPD

(Weimar - Growth of the Urban Working Class)

Answer 8

2 million

Question 9

The great depression - working class - 9 million unemployed by what year?

 (Weimar- Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 9

1933

Question 10

What had Urban workers benefited from that was at the expense of their rights?

(Nazi- Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 10

Public work schemes like RAD

Question 11

As the Nazis prepared the country for war. Working class grew by what percentage from 1929–1938?

 (Nazi- Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 11

10%

Question 12

Despite some working – class opposition, and the fact that they were under represented amongst Nazi membership what was particularly high during the war?

 (Nazi- Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 12

Worker discipline

Question 13

1950–1980 what percent of the population lived in urban areas?

 (West Germany- Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 13

74%

Question 14

Urbanisation increased significantly with the working population in rural communities falling from 23.1% to what?

 (West Germany- Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 14

8.3%

Question 15

In total, West Germany employed 14 million guest workers. What are guest workers?

(West Germany- Growth of the Urban working class)

Answer 15

Foreign workers, which changed Germany’s working class