Conference paper
The Attitude of the Working-Class Movement to the Inter-State Migration and the Employment of Foreigners in the Twentieth Century with Special Reference to Germany and the Federal Republic of Germany
Lothar Elsner
; Wilhelm Pieck University, Rostock, Germany
Abstract
Workers' external migration, as well as internal one, have a number of causes and effects. They lead to significant changes in the countries and regions of origin, and also in the countries and regions of destination, and they affect the lives and consciousness of migrant workers and their families. Paced with the far-reaching consequences and effects of foreign workers' migration and employment, the working-class movement has made attempts from the very first beginning to take a class-based attitude to migration. Discussions and resolutions pertaining to the Second International confirmed the fact that under the conditions of imperialism two diverse class-orientated approaches were manifest, which was also reflected in different views of migration and foreign workers' employment.
Keywords
external migration; migrant workers; employment of foreigners; working-class movement; Germany
Hrčak ID:
128154
URI
Publication date:
31.5.1988.
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