Power and social legislation for workers in Germany in the second half of the XIX century: intentions and results

The article is devoted to one of the factors of shaping the social legislation for workers in Germany in the second half of the 19th century: the desire of monarchical power to use the working-class struggle against bourgeois exploitation for its own political purposes, to break the temporary alliance between the proletariat and the Progressist party, to weaken the latter, to attract workers to the side of government and the monarch, and to destroy subsequently the Social-Democratic Party of Germany.