Optimizing the German Workforce: Labor Administration from Bismarck to the Economic Miracle by David Meskill

Author:David Meskill [Meskill, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

THE NAZI CONSOLIDATION OF THE HUMAN ECONOMIES

Within just a couple of years of German industry’s rediscovery of the skilled worker and the permanent legal establishment of the Labor Administration, economic and political tidal waves threatened to sweep them away. The Depression beginning in 1929 meant that neither companies nor individuals, for whom immediate survival was at stake, were willing to invest much in training for the long-term future. Likewise, the Labor Administration had to redirect the bulk of its resources earmarked for vocational counseling toward the simple sustenance of the growing legions of unemployed. The rise to power of the National Socialists overturned more than simply the corporatist structures of the Labor Administration. The new regime’s radical methods and goals—especially its focus on expansionary war—raised doubts about the future of all of the previous policies, including the vocational programs launched just a few years earlier.

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