Optimizing the German workforce [[electronic resource] ] : labor administration from Bismarck to the economic miracle / / David Meskill

• Autore: Meskill David
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.12/0420943
• Soggetto topico: Employees - Training of - Germany; Labor market - Germany
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Optimizing the German workforce
• ISBN: 1-78533-664-9; 1-282-66249-X; 9786612662492; 1-84545-812-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910268955103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Monographs in German history ; ; v. 31.