The foreign worker and the German labor movement : xenophobia and solidarity in the coal fields of the Ruhr, 1871-1914
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The foreign worker and the German labor movement : xenophobia and solidarity in the coal fields of the Ruhr, 1871-1914
Berg Publishers, 1994
Available at 12 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 264-289
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Based on extensive research in Polish and German archives this book documents the major developments within the labor movement in the Ruhr, including the mass strikes of 1889, 1905 and 1912 and the so-called 'Polish Revolt' of 1899. The author argues that Polish militancy generally exceeded that of native miners and calls into question the standard view of the Polish workers' relationship to the labor movement. This revisionist book begs a reconsideration of the role that foreign labor plays in modern industrial societies.
Table of Contents
- The arrival of the foreign worker
- unexpected foreign and native solidarity
- ambivalence toward the foreign worker
- foreign militancy and native xenophobia
- the achievement of foreign and native solidarity
- the decline of solidarity
- conclusion - xenophobia, solidarity and militancy.
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