Conference paper
The Attitudes of German Trade Unions to Migrant Workers, 1880s to 1914
Dirk Hoerder
; University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Abstract
In a short introduction to this paper a specific development of the German social democratic party and trade unions is dealt with, along with workers' emigration, mostly to the United States of America, and a growth of immigration, mainly from Poland and Italy. There follows an account of job competition, because of the danger of undercutting wage levels on the labor market, an account of strikebreaking, and of threats to migrants' health, morals and culture. In the final part of the paper German trade unions' practices towards foreign workers are compared from a theoretical point of view.
Keywords
migrant workers; trade union; Germany
Hrčak ID:
128155
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Publication date:
31.5.1988.
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