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The Foreign Worker and the German Labor Movement - Xenophobia and Solidarity in the Coal Fields of the Ruhr, 1871-1914 (Hardcover)
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The Foreign Worker and the German Labor Movement - Xenophobia and Solidarity in the Coal Fields of the Ruhr, 1871-1914 (Hardcover)
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In August 1914 the German labour movement did not oppose the
decision to go to war, and workers responded with as much
enthusiasm as other social strata: one of the most powerful labour
movements in the world failed to live up to the ideal of class
solidarity. The movement's relations with foreign workers,
particularly Polish coal miners, in the Ruhr in the decades before
the war foreshadowed this failure. The rural origins of the Polish
migrants and their traditional Catholic religious beliefs led most
observers, including their fellow workers as well as recent
historians, to view them as obstacles to the labour movement and
resistant to working-class consciousness. This study, based on
extensive research in archives in Germany and Poland, documents a
very different history - one in which Polish miners' militancy
exceeded that of native miners, and whose relations with German
workers were marked by both xenophobia and solidarity.
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