Optimizing the German Workforce - Labor Administration From Bismarck to the Economic Miracle

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.

About the author

David Meskill received a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Harvard University. He has published articles on the Labor Administration, applied psychology, and Alexis de Tocqueville. He is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Dowling College.

Product details

• Authors: David Meskill, Meskill David
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2022
• EAN: 9781800737297
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-729-7
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Monographs in German History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Germany, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Labour / income economics, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Labour Economics, Industrialisation & Industrial History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Industrialisation and industrial history