@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9qdbsj.19,
 ISBN = {9781782380047},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qdbsj.19},
 abstract = {The ascent of the middle classes to social and political prominence was accompanied by changes in German society of an even more radical nature. Indeed for every new factory, mine, or railroad of the early industrial revolution, Germany’s enterprising businessmen had to recruit, train, and discipline a labor force. The Egells machine factory in Berlin employed 500 workers in 1847, for instance, while 1,200 wore the blue collar in Borsig’s locomotive works. These two operations were exceptionally large, of course, most others typically employed no more than twenty or thirty hands. By the late 1840s around 170,000 factory workers toiled},
 bookauthor = {Eric Dorn Brose},
 booktitle = {German History 1789-1871: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich},
 edition = {1},
 pages = {206--218},
 publisher = {Berghahn Books},
 title = {The Threat of the Dangerous Classes},
 year = {2013}
}