These sources contain material relating to people who visited from Germany to learn in some way about industry in the United States.
Carl Köttgen, Das wirtschaftliche Amerika (1925)
Carl Köttgen was a German electrical engineer who worked for the electric machine company Siemens, rising to the rank of director by the early twentieth century…
Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, Amerikareise deutscher Gewerkschaftsführer (1926)
In 1925, the German socialist trade union association, Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, sent a 15-member delegation to the United States to study the “underbelly” of the American manufacturing system in order for German trade unions to be able to participate in the national debate on shaping the German economic system from a first-hand experience…
Everett H. Bellows, “Introductory Remarks”(1952)
While the majority of Marshall Plan funding was devoted to emergency food and fuel shipments, one of the key programmatic goals of the Marshall Plan was to increase productivity in Europe to match the torrid pace of production in the United States…
Studebaker, “They See America” (1953)
One of the core components of the Marshall Plan’s Productivity Program was hands on experience for European workers and managers…
Bert Wessel, Amerika-Tagebuch (1951)
A major part of the Productivity Program was the Work-Study for Productivity Program, in which young European workers would visit the United States to gain insight into plant level collective bargaining and labor relations…
A major part of the Productivity Program was the Work-Study for Productivity Program, in which young European workers would visit the United States to gain insight into plant level collective bargaining and labor relations…
Heinrich Krumm, American Journey! (1951)
A major part of the Marshall Plan was Project Impact, which was designed to bring European industrialists to the United States and culminated in the First International Conference of Manufacturers…
Productivity Machines 