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oapen-20.500.12657-300322024-03-25T09:51:41Z Optimizing the German Workforce Meskill, David History labor history German history economic history corporatism vocational training labour history Apprenticeship Nazism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history 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. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-20 03:00:28 2020-04-01T12:43:05Z 2020-04-01T12:43:05Z 2010-04-01 book 650064 OCN: 653399024 9781785336645 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30032 eng Monographs in German History application/pdf n/a 650064.pdf Berghahn Books 10.2307/j.ctt9qdd9p 101592 10.2307/j.ctt9qdd9p 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781785336645 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101592 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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