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On 11.07.2012 19:10, William Quimby wrote: <snip>
I haven't read Steenson but I know that chapter 2 is on Germany. Lidtke touches on your question in the chapter "Labor Movement Associations: Growth, Structure, and Composition". However he focuses more on the "free trade associations" and their efforts to unite "arbeiters" around sport and cultural activities. The SPD drew heavily on these essentially "non-political" organizations (underground as it were until the anti-Socialist law was repealed on May 15, 1908, and above ground after) for membership and support.
The Anti-Socialist Law was Bismarck's bab, so to speak, and lapsed after the Reichstag refused top renew it on 25 January 1890 - in the election on 20 Februarty the SPD got 19.5% of the vote - Bismarck resigned on 18 March and no further serious attempt was made to reintroduce the law (although there were a number of threats to do so).
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