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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meskill, David.

Contributor:

Knowledge Unlatched, Funder.

Series:

Monographs in German history ; v. 31.

Monographs in German history ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employees--Training of--Germany.

Employees.

Labor market--Germany.

Labor market.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

New York Oxford Berghahn Books, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

"Organizing" the labor market in the dynamic Kaiserreich

Promoting a skilled workforce

Toward Totalerfassung : creating the national labor administration

Toward the German skills machine : establishing vocational counseling and training

The Nazi consolidation of the human economies

The labor administration in the economic miracle

Conclusion : the age of organization.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 04 2025)

ISBN:

1-78533-664-9

1-282-66249-X

9786612662492

1-84545-812-5

OCLC:

669127110

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access