Author |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
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Title |
Franz Kafka : the office writings / edited by Stanley Corngold, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner ; translations by Eric Patton with Ruth Hein. |
OCLC |
231586901 |
ISBN |
9780691126807 (cloth : hc : alk. paper) |
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0691126801 (cloth : hc : alk. paper) |
Publisher |
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009. |
Description |
xx, 404 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
LC Subject heading/s |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Translations into English.
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Career in insurance.
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Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Knowledge -- Law.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Kafka and the ministry of writing / Stanley Corngold -- Kafka's office writings: historical background and institutional setting / Benno Wagner -- Speech on the occasion of the inauguration of the institute's new director (1909) -- The scope of compulsory insurance for the building trades (1908) -- Fixed-rate insurance premiums for small farms using machinery (1909) -- Inclusion of private automobile "firms" in the compulsory insurance program (1909) -- Appeal against risk classification of Christian Geipel & Sohn, mechanical weaving mill in Asch (1910) -- Measures for preventing accidents for wood-planing machines (1910) -- On the examination of firms by trade inspectors (1911) -- Workmen's insurance and employers: two articles in the Tetschen-Bodenbacher Zeitung (1911) -- Petition of the Toy Producers' Association in Katharinaberg, Erzgebirge (1912) -- Risk classification appeal by Norbert Hochsieder, boarding house owner in Marienbad (1912) -- Letters to the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague (1912-15) -- Criminal charge against Josef Renelt for the illegal withholding of insurance fees (1913) -- Second international congress on accident prevention and first aid in Vienna (1913) -- Accident prevention in quarries (1914) -- Jubilee report: twenty-five years of the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute (1914) -- Risk classification and accident prevention in wartime (1915) -- A public psychiatric hospital for German-Bohemia (1916) -- "Help disabled veterans! An urgent appeal to the public" (1916/1917) -- Wraparound: from Kafka to Kafkaesque / Jack Greenberg. |
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