PT Journal
AU Bothe Dr., K
   Wolf, J
TI Integration durch Arbeit? Migranten und die Gewerkschaft am Beispiel der westdeutschen
Werftindustrie 1960–1983
SE Sozial.Geschichte Online: Zeitschrift für historische Analyse des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
PD 11
PY 2021
BP 29
EP 70
VL 2021
IS 30
DI 10.17185/duepublico/74946
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AB This study examines the role of trade unions and works councils in the context of labor migration in the West German shipbuilding industry from 1960 to 1983. Within two decades, originally booming and large shipyards were hit by an economic crisis with severe implications on the employment of migrant labor. Our findings, based on 29 oral history interviews with former staff of three leading shipyards and archival sources, show that although integration efforts existed, trade unions did not address emerging structural and subjective disadvantages and exclusions of workers with a migrant background. We identify discriminatory experiences, migratory agency and diverse union actor’s initiatives from below that have not been documented before.
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