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
