I’ve been tagged. Here’s the game:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.
1. Book = Kathleen Canning, Gender History In Practice
2 -4.
(Page 122 is blank, that would have been interesting. The instructions do not say to post the 5th sentence nor do they say not to. I shall refrain.)
“In Germany, by contrast, the history of work, industrial transformation, and class formation was viewed as exhaustively researched by the late 1980s, so social historians turned to the thus far unexplored Burgertum [should be an umlaut over the first u], thereby closing the book on labor history before it “went cultural” or began to explore gender. On both sides of the Atlantic however, transformations of geopolitics, symbolized in the “fall of the Berlin Wall,” appeared to alter the political resonances of work and workers, shifting attention from struggles of class to those of citizens, civil societies, and governmentality. For a plethora of reasons, some specific to respective national or academic contexts, labor, as a distinct field of inquiry, seemed to vanish from graduate seminars, conference programs, and academic best-seller lists in the course of the 1990s.”
5. Tag five people.
I tag NP at Roughtheory, Wildly at Wildly Parenthetical, Negatron at Unemployed Negativity, Adam at Machete408, and Mike at the STO history blog.