These sources all relate in some way to the Marshall Plan or come directly from Marshall Plan sources.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Men’s Work Pants (1951)
Between 1951 and 1954, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics created a series of 48 reports that would show, in detail, the productivity of American industries, and give detailed technical information on how these companies achieved their productivity…
“Procedures for Establishing Demonstration Projects” (1952)
The Productivity Plan division of the Marshall Plan strived to increase the productivity of European industries in a variety of ways. One of their biggest focuses was on the Demonstration Projects, in which European companies would receive some amount of financial aid from the Marshall Plan in return for incorporating productivity measures that were in line with American productivity…
NAM, Proceedings of the First International Conference of Manufacturers (1951)
While various members of the business community all saw the value of free enterprise, they disagreed on exactly how such an economy should function. These disagreements came to light at the First International Conference of Manufacturers in New York on December 3rd-5th of 1951…
Clinton S. Golden, “Presentation to the ECA” (1949)
Collaborative Collective Bargaining was a concept strongly pushed by Clinton S. Golden and Harold Ruttenberg in their book, Dynamics of Industrial Democracy…
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…
Meyer Bernstein, “Memorandum re Eldridge Haynes Letters” (1951)
US labor unions supported the Marshall Plan’s effort to convince Europeans, and in particular European labor unions of the benefits of US productivity to lure European workers away from Communist promises; to this end, US union officers served in the Marshall Plan’s labor division…
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…
Productivity Machines 