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Author Meskill, David.

Title Optimizing the German Workforce : Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages).
Series Monographs in German History, Vol. 31
Monographs in German history ; Vol. 31.
Contents Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- "Organizing" the Labor Market in the Dynamic Kaiserreich; Chapter 2 -- Promoting a Skilled Workforce; Chapter 3 -- Toward Totalerfassung; Chapter 4 -- Toward the German Skills Machine; Chapter 5 -- The Nazi Consolidation of the Human Economies; Chapter 6 -- The Labor Administration in the Economic Miracle; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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.
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Subject Employees -- Training of -- Germany.
Labor market -- Germany.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Employees -- Training of. (OCoLC)fst00909221
Labor market. (OCoLC)fst00990036
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Other Form: Print version: Meskill, David. Optimizing the German Workforce : Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., ©2006 9781845456313
ISBN 9781845458126 (electronic bk.)
1845458125 (electronic bk.)
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