Max Weber and the ‘labour question’: an initial appraisal

Strazzeri, Victor (2015). Max Weber and the ‘labour question’: an initial appraisal. Max Weber studies, 15(1), pp. 69-100. 10.15543/mws/2015/1/5

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This article seeks to address Max Weber's first systematic encounter with the industrial or urban 'labour question': his lectures on the topic from 1895 and 1898 (gathered in the MWG I/4). The aim is to show how Weber's considerations on the labour movement and socialist ideas in Germany and elsewhere can reveal the methodological underpinnings of his thought in the mid-1890s and thus indicate the connections between his so-called 'youthful' production and his 'mature' (post 1903) work. Different segments of the lectures will be approached: his conceptual introduction, his definition of the modern worker and the most interesting points of his retelling of the history of the English and German labour movements. The article concludes with Weber's views on the situation of the German labour movement at the time (c. 1895), which, in turn, will be set against a discussion of the relationship between 'science' and 'politics' in Weber's work in the 1890s.

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