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Working for the enemy: Ford, General Motors, and forced labor in Germany during the Second World War

Tells the story of what happened at two American-owned German factories under the Third Reich: Opel, owned by General Motors, and Ford Werke, owned by Ford Motor Company. These factories became indispensable suppliers to the German armed forces, and during the war, used thousands of POWs, civilians

Wage Curve Analyses of Establishment Data from Western Germany

Using the IAB Establishment Panel, which is representative for western Germany, the authors find that establishment-level wages reacted to variations in the regional unemployment rate. The elasticity of wages with respect to unemployment, they estimate, was about -0.1. This responsiveness of the wage to regional variation is close to estimates found by other researchers (using individual rather than establishment data) for other countries, and contradicts the view that Germany's labor market, largely due to the nature of collective bargaining in that country, is relatively inflexible. Possible explanations for this finding are that the negotiated wage is treated like a minimum wage, with firms deviating from it in order to increase work effort; bargaining between firms and individual workers or between firms and works councils produces wage differences; or collective agreements do not restrict firms to the extent that is often assumed.

Wage Curve Analyses of Establishment Data from Western Germany

Using the IAB Establishment Panel, which is representative for western Germany, the authors find that establishment-level wages reacted to variations in the regional unemployment rate. The elasticity of wages with respect to unemployment, they estimate, was about −0.1. This responsiveness of the wage to regional variation is close to estimates found by other researchers (using individual rather than establishment data) for other countries, and contradicts the view that Germany's labor market, largely due to the nature of collective bargaining in that country, is relatively inflexible. Possible explanations for this finding are that the negotiated wage is treated like a minimum wage, with firms deviating from it in order to increase work effort; bargaining between firms and individual workers or between firms and works councils produces wage differences; or collective agreements do not restrict firms to the extent that is often assumed.

Book Review: Hitler’s Foreign Workers: Enforced Labor in Germany under the Third Reich

Book Review: Hitler’s Foreign Workers: Enforced Labor in Germany under the Third Reich

Ulrich Herbert, Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich. Translated by William Templer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997 [1985]. xi + 510 pp. $79.95 cloth.

However depressing its subject matter, the translation of Ulrich Herbert's exhaustive study on the more than 7.6 million foreigners who were forced into slave labor in Nazi Germany during World War Two is to be warmly welcomed. It is a model study because of its broad archival research base as well as its findings. When the German original appeared in 1985, it helped to redefine the agenda for the study of the Third Reich, and since then a new generation of historians has come along to work on questions that Herbert and others had begun to lay out.

Book ReviewsHitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich. By Ulrich Herbert. Translated by, William Templer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi+510. $80.00.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Reviews Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich. By Ulrich Herbert. Translated by, William Templer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi+510. $80.00.Edward L. HomzeEdward L. HomzeUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln Search for more articles by this author University of Nebraska, LincolnPDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 71, Number 3September 1999 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/235342 Views: 12Total views on this site Permission to reprint a book review printed in this section may be obtained only from the author.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Book Review: Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich

Book Review: Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich. By Ulrich Herbert (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxi plus 510pp. $80.00)

Journal Article Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich. By Ulrich Herbert (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxi plus 510pp. $80.00) Get access Stephen L. Harp Stephen L. Harp University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 1, Fall 1998, Pages 222–223, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.1.222 Published: 01 October 1998

Hitler’s Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich, by Ulrich Herbert

"Hitler’s Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany Under the Third Reich, by Ulrich Herbert." Canadian Journal of History, 33(2), pp. 317–318

Facing the Market: Institutions, Strategies, and the Fate of Organized Labor in Germany and Britain

Facing the Market: Institutions, Strategies, and the Fate of Organized Labor in Germany and Britain

From Factor Endowments to Class Struggle

Ronald Rogowski's recent and important work, Commerce and Coalitions, sets forth a farranging and parsimonious theory of trade and political cleavages. This article closely investigates its validity in the case of pre-World War I Germany, where trade has long been seen as a critical factor determining coalition formation and Rogowski's argument appears at first glance to be especially compelling. Close investigation, however, reveals that the key variable in Rogowski's theory, relative factor endowments, fails to account for the political alignment of capital and labor in Germany following 1890. This article puts forward an alternative theory in which business-labor coalition formation is determined not only by the alliance possibilities associated with trade but also by their intersection with the strength of worker organization and capital-labor mobility. This argument both addresses the anomalies that prewar Germany poses for Rogowski's account of trade and cleavages and provides a potential explanation for the absence of business-labor collaboration elsewhere in Western Europe before 1914.

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich.

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich.

Hitler's foreign workers: enforced foreign labor in Germany under the Third Reich

1. Introduction 2. Prelude: the practical experience of World War I 3. The prehistory of foreign labor deployment 4. 1939-40: the deployment of Polish labor as an experiment 5. Blitzkrieg euphoria and extensive labor deployment 6. Labor deployment instead of annihilation: policy on foreigners in 1942 7. Racism and material constraints: foreign labor deployment in 1942 8. 1943-44: Policy on foreigners in the midst of total war 9. Integration and terror: the practice of foreign labor deployment, 1943-44 10. The dynamism of violence: the final phase of the war Concluding thoughts Notes Bibliography The Hans Bockler Foundation Index.

Army, Industry and Labor in Germany, 1914-1918

Army, Industry and Labor in Germany, 1914-1918

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich

Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich

La littérature saisie par l'histoire

Literature in the grip of history The present article is not a study of the "Nouveau Roman", but rather a reflection on the conditions necessary for the break in French esthetics in the late 1950s. The new avenues opened up by the history of publishing and a sociological approach concerned with the production of symbolic goods authorize a rethinking of publishers' choices, which ensured the promotion of this literary movement. The Nouveau Roman has become inseparable from the Editions de Minuit. But this was not a forgone conclusion : the Editions du Seuil, who published Jean Cayrol, the first theoretician of the "Lazarist novel" (i.e. literature of redemption through suffering), should have been the logical ones to promote this avant-garde movement. Initially, unwilling to shoulder the costs of an avant-garde editorial strategy, Le Seuil, via Roland Barthes, helped the Editions de Minuit launch a new esthetic of the novel : Alain Robbe-Grillet became Jean Cayrol's natural successor. This aberrant succession - due to the recent past, the war (Cayrol had fought in the Resistance and been deported ; Robbe-Grillet, a follower of Marshal Petain, had done his stint at volunteer labor in Germany) -was made possible by the Editions de Minuit. How is it imaginable that one of the most public authors, the de facto if not official literary director of the publishing house born of the Resistance, could be "on the other side". From this standpoint it is not so much at the thematic level that one needs to think the all-important relationship between the Nouveau Roman and the War but at the level of its writing and its place of publication. The second crucial repercussion the Editions de Minuit had on the Nouveau Roman's accession to avant-garde status was their stand against the war in Algeria. For the break with current esthetics embodied by the Nouveau Roman to appear, Minuit had to come into conflict with the master of the hour, Jean-Paul Sartre and the dominant literary trend of the moment : "litterature engagée". By publishing subversive texts on the Algerian war at the same time as it was bringing out "pure literature", the Nouveau Roman, the Editions de Minuit managed to dissociate literature and politics. Their political commitment reminiscent of the "Dreyfus Affair" together with their disqualification of "engaged literature" helped bolster intellectuals' break with the Communist Party, but it also bore the seeds of another radical change : since Emile Zola, the intellectual had been inseparable from the man of letters ; with the writer dethroned, who was now going to embody the figure of the intellectual?

Germany's Anti‐Foreigner Crisis: State Disunity and Collective ‘Forgetting’

Abstract: Employment of foreign labor in Germany is generally perceived as a recent phenomenon; Germany's pre‐war experiences with foreign labor do not figure prominently in public discussion. This article analyzes the active omission of this aspect of the past as an important feature of German social memory. Drawing largely on Ulrich Herbert's research, the forgotten’ history of pre‐ and post‐war experiences with foreign labor is summarized. This provides a perspective on the significant parallels between conflicts today and those of prior periods and exposes a fundamental conflict within the state regarding the use of foreign labor. Anti‐foreigner violence is reinterpreted as representing a failure of the state to maintain ideological unity without periodically responding to powerful and enduring anti‐foreigner pressure.

Medical and occupational preconditions for vibration-induced spinal disorders: occupational disease no. 2110 in Germany.

The current state of scientific knowledge of the biodynamic behaviour of the vertebral column under the influence of whole-body vibration whilst sitting and results from epidemiological studies caused the medical board of experts on occupational health of the Federal Ministry of Labour in Germany to add a new occupational disease to the official list of occupational diseases. The occupational disease "diseases of the lumber spine from disc degeneration caused by long-term (mainly vertical) whole-body vibration exposure" has been introduced. The medical preconditions with the symptoms and the diagnostic methods are presented. With regard to the occupational preconditions for the acknowledgement of this occupational disease, a procedure is suggested which leads to the determination of the total occupational vibration exposure dose. Another requirement for recognition is that the chronic recurrent complaints have caused the patient to avoid any form of vibration exposure.

A History of Foreign Labor in Germany, 1880-1980: Seasonal Workers/Forced Laborers/Guest Workers

Combines socioeconomic labor market analysis with a cultural historical study of the impact of migration.

Ulrich Herbert, A History of Foreign Labor in Germany, 1880–1980: Seasonal Workers/Forced Laborers/Guest Workers. Translated by William Templer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. 310 pp.

Ulrich Herbert, A History of Foreign Labor in Germany, 1880–1980: Seasonal Workers/Forced Laborers/Guest Workers. Translated by William Templer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990. 310 pp. - Volume 43