Labor Relations: German Unions

These sources all contain material related to labor relations. In specific they relate to material related to unions existing in Germany.

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…

Auswertungskonferenz (1950’s)

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…

Paul Fisher, “Memo: Assistance to German Labor Organizations in the Administration of Economic Co-Determination” (1951)

This memo, written about two weeks after co-determination legislation passed the West German parliament on April 19, 1951, addresses the question what assistance the Marshall administration may provide to German unions in the implementation of co-determination…

“Der 1. August 1958,” IBM Deutschland (1958)

The third article of IBM Deutschland, published in August of 1958, tells the story of a major milestone in the company’s labor relations: the abolishment of the distinction between blue and white collar employees, paying salaries rather than hourly wages to all employees…

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