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.
David Meskill received a Ph.D. in Modern European History from
Harvard University. He has published articles on the Labor
Administration, applied psychology, and Alexis de Tocqueville. He
is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Dowling
College.
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