ISBN:
9780197558447
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9780197558447
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9780197558430
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 292 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in international history
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
331.62094309045
Keywords:
Geschichte 1955-1989
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Foreign workers / Germany / History / 20th century
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Foreign workers / Services for / Germany
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Foreign workers' families / Germany / History / 20th century
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Foreign workers / Legal status, laws, etc / Germany
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Soziale Situation
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Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
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Familie
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Germany / Economic conditions / 1945-1990
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Deutschland
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Deutschland
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Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
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Familie
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Soziale Situation
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Geschichte 1955-1989
Abstract:
Beginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labour force was essential to creating the postwar German economic miracle. Employers fantasized that foreign 'guest workers' would provide labour power in their prime productive years without having to pay for their education, pensions, or medical care. They especially hoped that the workers would leave behind their spouses and children and not encumber the German state or society with the cost of caring for them. As Lauren Stokes argues, the Federal Republic of Germany turned fear of this foreign family into the basis of policymaking, while at the same time implementing policies that inflicted fear in foreign families. Workers did not always prove willing to live their work lives in the FRG and their family lives elsewhere
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197558416.001.0001
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