Optimizing the German workforce : labor administration from Bismarck to the economic miracle / David Meskill

During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country's human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a sys...

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Main Authors:Meskill, David (Author)
Corporate Authors:Berghahn Books (Publisher)
Formato: Online-Resource
Idioma:English
Publicado em:New York : Berghahn Books, 2018
Colecção:Monographs in German history volume 31
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Resumo:During the twentieth century, German government and industry created a highly skilled workforce as part of an ambitious program to control and develop the country's human resources. Yet, these long-standing efforts to match as many workers as possible to skilled vocations and to establish a system of job training have received little scholarly attention, until now. The author's account of the broad support for this program challenges the standard historical accounts that focus on disagreements over the German political-economic order and points instead to an important area of consensus. These advances are explained in terms of political policies of corporatist compromise and national security as well as industry's evolving production strategies. By tracing the development of these policies over the course of a century, the author also suggests important continuities in Germany's domestic politics, even across such different regimes as Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, and post-1945 West Germany.
Descrição do item:Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 232-257. - Register
Descrição Física:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 276 Seiten)
ISBN:9781785336645