In the context of the emergence of modern vocational education in Germany, this article analyses the relations between history of education and gender in the perspective of segregation. First it outlines the debates concerning women's access to vocational education and labour after 1865. The second …
Called for in the 1870s and 1880s as a solution for the "apprenticeship crisis", the introduction of manual activities constituted one of the major elements of the law of 28th March 1882. This legislation introduced manual work as a primary school subject, envisaging it as a "preparation for vocatio…
